PRI Staff

Population Doubling Times The Worldwatch Institute, an allegedly expert group on world population growth, recently demonstrated ignorance of some basic facts about the subject. In the March/April 1994 edition of its bi-monthly publication World Watch (37), the would-be population control outfit published a table of

This is the text of a message from the Roman Catholic Pontiff Pope John Paul II to Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund and Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Population and Development, during her visit to Vatican City,

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth (Genesis 1: 27–28). Human fertility has

After President Bill Clinton’s State of the Union address in January 1994, the media were boundless in their reporting of the president’s freshened support among the American electorate. The clue to the country’s enthusiastic response was the president’s apparent support of “family values.” In the

Representatives of various national academies of sciences held a “Science Summit” in New Delhi, India, from 24-27 October, 1993. The meeting was held with the intent of providing a ‘scientific’ foundation for the resolutions of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)

Sheldon Richman is a senior editor with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. In his best-selling book, Earth in the Balance, U.S. Vice President Al Gore wrote, “No goal is more crucial to healing the global environment than stabilizing human population” During the U.S. presidential

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics The Setting Sun? According to official 1992 population projections by the Japanese government,1 the population of Japan, which is growing at an extremely slow rate of just one-third of one percent annually, will begin to decline in less than 20

Meet Fred Sai et al. Veteran Ghanaian researcher and family planning advocate Fred Sai and the Mainichi Shimbun Population Problems Research Council of Japan shared this year’s United Nations Population Award at a ceremony at UN headquarters in New York last month. They were chosen

European regional conference on population and development: European and American governments meeting at the European population and development conference in Geneva balked at committing themselves to a target for funding birth control programs in developing countries. They did agree, however, to increase spending for population

Chill winds of fear sweep the Netherlands as euthanasia unveils itself like a thief in the night. The debate on the issue of euthanasia is now going on in many countries including the United States, but only in Holland is active euthanasia, injecting sick people