PRI Staff

Norplant: Personal Testimonies

Norplant alleged to Cause Blindness: Abuse of Women in Bangladesh and Haiti Documented by PRI Staff PRI ReviewMay/June 1996 When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Norplant in December 1990, this Population Council product was hailed as a boon to women around the world.

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Global Monitor

U.N. windows look out on fewer people The United Nations latest global population report, World Population Prospects: 1994 Revision, released in late 1995, well documents the sharp slowdown currently underway in the growth of world population. For instance, in the U.N.’s previous world population report,

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From the Countries

Chinese population growth slows; New Delhi bans babies China’s State Statistics Bureau announced in mid-February that recent surveys indicated the country’s rate of population growth had slowed down during the past five years. Between 1991 to the end of 1995, the Bureau said that China’s

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Global Monitor

U.N. windows look out on fewer people The United Nations latest global population report, World Population Prospects: 1994 Revision, released in late 1995, well documents

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From the Countries

Chinese population growth slows; New Delhi bans babies China’s State Statistics Bureau announced in mid-February that recent surveys indicated the country’s rate of population growth

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