Lester Brown, President of the Worldwatch Institute and professional alarmist, simply cannot admit he is wrong. At November’s Food Summit, Brown once again warned of imminent food shortages and impending disaster unless families worldwide stop having babies. What is needed, he claimed, is for all
In Betrayal of Science and Reason,1 the latest overpopulation polemic from Paul and Anne Ehrlich one finds the following regarding future prospects for agricultural production: More ominous, perhaps, is the possible impact of global climate change on agricultural ecosystems. Rapid climate change could deliver the
The UN Food and Agriculture Association’s (FAO’s) World Food Summit began with the announcement that the summit’s Rome Declaration and Plan of Action had already been decided upon at the summit’s preparatory meetings. This reduced the official Summit’s five days to a largely pointless exercise
New NGO to use UN as marketing tool In what may be the first instance of a looming trend, the manufacturer of the first ever female condom has set up a non-profit foundation to both market its product in the developing world and to employ
Like many children of the Fifties, it has taken me a long time to overcome my residual feelings of good will for the United Nations. Initiated by my own country to be a force for good in the world, the UN was going to ensure
With the conclusion of the recent Food Summit, in Rome 13–17 November, the United Nations (UN) has consolidated its position as the world’s largest and most systematically anti-natalist organization. Armed with “‘plans of action” from each of this decade’s other major global summits, UN bureaucrats
Women in the developing world feel trapped between the Pope and the profit, said Farida Akhter, a women’s activist from Bangladesh. “They admire the Pope’s recognition that development is not conditional on population but many disagree with his opposition to all contraception and all abortion.
Possibly tainted vaccine may be tip of the iceberg Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) has indicated.1 The study tested random samples of a tetanus vaccine for the presence of
Editors note: We print the following article, written by a Chinese professor of forensic medicine, not because we endorse the ideas it contains. Our motivation is the opposite: We have allowed Dr. Xiong Ping to vent his views in this publication precisely because we find
More than 300 Mexican women have documented their experiences with forced sterilization at the hands of Mexican population controllers, and an activist group claims to have gathered evidence of “thousands” more. “Women are being trampled. Their rights are being trampled,” said Jorge Serrano Limon, director
Lester Brown, President of the Worldwatch Institute and professional alarmist, simply cannot admit he is wrong. At November’s Food Summit, Brown once again warned of
In Betrayal of Science and Reason,1 the latest overpopulation polemic from Paul and Anne Ehrlich one finds the following regarding future prospects for agricultural production:
The UN Food and Agriculture Association’s (FAO’s) World Food Summit began with the announcement that the summit’s Rome Declaration and Plan of Action had already
New NGO to use UN as marketing tool In what may be the first instance of a looming trend, the manufacturer of the first ever
Like many children of the Fifties, it has taken me a long time to overcome my residual feelings of good will for the United Nations.
With the conclusion of the recent Food Summit, in Rome 13–17 November, the United Nations (UN) has consolidated its position as the world’s largest and
Women in the developing world feel trapped between the Pope and the profit, said Farida Akhter, a women’s activist from Bangladesh. “They admire the Pope’s
Possibly tainted vaccine may be tip of the iceberg Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by
Editors note: We print the following article, written by a Chinese professor of forensic medicine, not because we endorse the ideas it contains. Our motivation
More than 300 Mexican women have documented their experiences with forced sterilization at the hands of Mexican population controllers, and an activist group claims to