1999

Serbian War Crimes, UNFPA and Crimes Against Humanity

June 1, 1999 Volume 1/ Number 3 Dear Friend and Colleague: During times of war, population reduction programs often take on new names. We are concerned about reported instances of war crimes committed in Yugoslavia against the Kosovar population. Our concern over human rights abuses extends

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Abortion Group Targets Youth Rock Fans

I recently overheard a conversation between my teenage brother and my Mom which began like this: “Mom, can I go to the Vans Warped Tour on Saturday?” Horrified, I dug through my files, thinking Planned Parenthood. Not only did Planned Parenthood tum out for the

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Feminist Rights Agenda Storms UN

The UN was established out of the ruins of a world that had gone to war to avoid ideological domination by a 1000-year Reich. When we consider that, through forty of the UN’s first fifty years, the non-communist sovereign states steered a careful course through

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From the Countries…

Japan: Contraceptive Pill Now Legal After thirty years of consideration, the Japanese government in early June approved the contraceptive pill for use in Japan. Up until now, Japan has been the only industrialized nation to forbid the use of the pill for contraceptive reasons, although

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Global Monitor

UN Committee Presses Chile, Nepal to Loosen Abortion Restrictions The United Nations Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee has called for the nations of Chile and Nepal to change their laws concerning abortion. Chile is one of the few countries in which abortion remains illegal in all cases.

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Pop Control for Squirrels? Just Plain Nuts!

It appears as though not even the inhabitants of the remote English countryside are free from the clutches of those seeking to limit the growth of the world’s population. According to recent reports from the BBC Online News Network, there is a new audience being

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Serbian War Crimes, UNFPA and Crimes Against Humanity

[Editor’s note: The Population Research Institute, in its Weekly Briefing, 1 June 1999 Vol. 1/Number 3, expressed concerns over a document released by UNFPA, entitled Assessment Report on Sexual Violence in Kosovo. PRI raised concerns that, in issuing its report, the UNFPA misrepresented war crimes

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From the Countries…

Japan: Contraceptive Pill Now Legal After thirty years of consideration, the Japanese government in early June approved the contraceptive pill for use in Japan. Up

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Global Monitor

UN Committee Presses Chile, Nepal to Loosen Abortion Restrictions The United Nations Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee has called for the nations of Chile and Nepal to

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