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
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.
[Editor’s note: The UNFPA is the largest purveyor of population control in the world, and has a dismal record on human rights. PRI was concerned about actions taken by the UNFPA against the captive Kosovar refugee population, and sent Austin Ruse of C-FAM to investigate.]
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
Inserted in this edition of the PRI Review is a pamphlet called Know Your Rights: Women, Family Planning and US Law. The US law referenced is known as the Tiahrt Amendment, which is intended to protect women and families against human rights abuses committed in
[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
Rape, in times of war, is as old as the Bible and as new as today’s headlines on the Kosovar refugee crisis. From the military laws laid out in Deuteronomy1 to the recent Serbian threat, victims of rape seem as much a part of a
May 24, 1999 Volume 1/ Number 2 Dear Friend and Colleague: Contrary to claims made by the UNFPA that China’s government is ready to implement a “kinder, gentler” one-child policy, officials in China’s communist government state that measures are being taken to make the policy more
The bombing of Serbia and the ensuing refugee crisis in Kosovo make up the first crisis to capture world attention since the approval of a controversial United Nations protocol entitled Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations. This crisis presents the first opportunity for the UN to
Developing Nations Take Stand on Reproductive Health The five year review of the Cairo Conference on Population and Development chugs slowly and painfully toward an uncertain conclusion. Convened to review the implementation of the 1994 Cairo Program of Action, this process has been bogged down
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
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
[Editor’s note: The UNFPA is the largest purveyor of population control in the world, and has a dismal record on human rights. PRI was concerned
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
Inserted in this edition of the PRI Review is a pamphlet called Know Your Rights: Women, Family Planning and US Law. The US law referenced
[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
Rape, in times of war, is as old as the Bible and as new as today’s headlines on the Kosovar refugee crisis. From the military
May 24, 1999 Volume 1/ Number 2 Dear Friend and Colleague: Contrary to claims made by the UNFPA that China’s government is ready to implement a
The bombing of Serbia and the ensuing refugee crisis in Kosovo make up the first crisis to capture world attention since the approval of a
Developing Nations Take Stand on Reproductive Health The five year review of the Cairo Conference on Population and Development chugs slowly and painfully toward an