Indian Parliament Rejects Bill that Discriminates Against Parents The government of India recently defeated a population policy which was so extreme even UNFPA director Nafis Sadik opposed it. The bill would have forbidden Indians with more than two children from holding national public office. The
Adolescents are Population Controllers’ Main Target Ted Turner’s UN Foundation, founded in 1997, has given $51 million to support UN projects that relate to “child health.” But as European news agency ZENIT points out, the Turner grant has less to do with funding basic health
The UNFPA launched its global HIV/AIDS awareness campaign on World AIDS Day, 1 December 1999, with praise tor the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). UNAIDS, in turn, promoted the female condom (femidom) as one of the “best practices” to protect against the AIDS epidemic
You may have thought that with the passing of Christmas you had heard the last of holiday fruitcakes. Not so fast. It seems as though the winter holidays aren’t the only time for them. Apparently, some fruitcakes last all year long. Brace yourselves because these
Recently, I began a talk with the following words: “My wife recently gave birth to our ninth child. Now the question I want to put to you is this: Is little Chiara [the name is Italian for Claire) part of the overpopulation problem, or is
One reason for the Peruvian Ministry of Health’s (MOH) chronic mistreatment of women in family planning programs is that abused women have little or no effective recourse. Rocio Villanueva Flores, an official with the Defensaria del Pueblo (the Peruvian ombudsman) and who specializes in women’s
A group called Project Reality, at a press conference in Washington, DC, educated members of America’s media about the rise in popularity of abstinence-based sex-ed programs in public schools throughout the US, and the decline of contraceptive-based programs. On 14 December 1999, Project Reality cited
[Editor’s note: PRI ‘s Weekly News Briefing is broadcast to a growing list of email recipients worldwide, including news reporters and editors. Our Weekly Briefing of 16 December 1999, Vol. l/No. 26, addressed New England’s depopulation crisis. It was re-broadcast by media in Maine, and
[Editor’s note: In January of 1998, David Morrison made his first trip to Peru to investigate that country ’s coercive sterilization campaign. Despite promises made by USAID) and the Peruvian government that the abuses he found would be curbed, reports from Peru suggested otherwise. On
China’s Abuses Ignored for Profit by Catherine Edwards Insight Magazine December 20, 1999 The U.S. government and U.S. corporations continue to push for closer economic ties with Communist China despite the country’s horrendous human-rights record. In Beijing in mid-November, China reached a trade agreement with
Indian Parliament Rejects Bill that Discriminates Against Parents The government of India recently defeated a population policy which was so extreme even UNFPA director Nafis
Adolescents are Population Controllers’ Main Target Ted Turner’s UN Foundation, founded in 1997, has given $51 million to support UN projects that relate to “child
The UNFPA launched its global HIV/AIDS awareness campaign on World AIDS Day, 1 December 1999, with praise tor the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
You may have thought that with the passing of Christmas you had heard the last of holiday fruitcakes. Not so fast. It seems as though
Recently, I began a talk with the following words: “My wife recently gave birth to our ninth child. Now the question I want to put
One reason for the Peruvian Ministry of Health’s (MOH) chronic mistreatment of women in family planning programs is that abused women have little or no
A group called Project Reality, at a press conference in Washington, DC, educated members of America’s media about the rise in popularity of abstinence-based sex-ed
[Editor’s note: PRI ‘s Weekly News Briefing is broadcast to a growing list of email recipients worldwide, including news reporters and editors. Our Weekly Briefing
[Editor’s note: In January of 1998, David Morrison made his first trip to Peru to investigate that country ’s coercive sterilization campaign. Despite promises made
China’s Abuses Ignored for Profit by Catherine Edwards Insight Magazine December 20, 1999 The U.S. government and U.S. corporations continue to push for closer economic