The latest vital statistics from the United Nations vividly confirm what the world’s demographers have long known: Europe is a dying continent. Over the past decade one European country after another has fallen into the state of natural population decline, i.e. more deaths than births.
Steven W Mosher will become Director of the Population Research Institute in November, replacing the outgoing Director, Jean M. Guilfoyle. “I am delighted to be joining PRI, which has a unique and important place among the organizations which monitor and report on international population control
About nine months after the end of World War II, the United States experienced a baby boom following the return of millions of U.S. servicemen who resumed/assumed their marital and parental duties or, if previously unmarried, entered marriage in record numbers. The resulting births began
China seizes Harry Wu, American citizen Naturalized American citizen. Harry Wu was seized entering China at the border in Kazakhstan. Mr. Wu was traveling on a valid United States passport and a visa issued by the Chinese Embassy in the US. Wu had spent 19
Europe lags in population control funding An international forum of parliamentarians has complained about the European Union’s (EU) lag in population control funding. The European Parliamentary Forum for Action reported that spending on population programmes was “less than one seventh of the $390 million planned
When the explorers discovered the West Indies and America, they marked their conquest by planting the flag of their country, symbolizing their entitlement to the territory. In war, soldiers rush to claim enemy territory by raising their country’s flag to signal to all the new
Recently a large iceberg, estimated to be about the size of the state of Rhode Island, broke loose from the floating Larsen Ice Shelf of Antarctica and slowly started drifting northward.1 Scientists immediately attributed the breakup to “rising regional temperatures” in Antarctica amid speculation as
No doubt the coming weeks leading up to the United Nations Fourth World conference on Women in Beijing in September will be filled with media hype about high hopes for a successful outcome. But such reports may prove unrealistic. The problem is that UN delegations
Newly initiated participants in the recent series of United Nations conferences, unfamiliar with UN bureaucratic language, were at a disadvantage in analyzing the resulting resolutions. The heated debates over the more obvious controversial issues drew attention away from the background language of the documents, further
Although US State Department officials say they’re against coercive population control in China, they have led the effort to deny U.S. asylum to Chinese who say they fled forced abortion and sterilization. Diplomats apparently have won their fight within the-Clinton Administration, but they could still
The latest vital statistics from the United Nations vividly confirm what the world’s demographers have long known: Europe is a dying continent. Over the past
Steven W Mosher will become Director of the Population Research Institute in November, replacing the outgoing Director, Jean M. Guilfoyle. “I am delighted to be
About nine months after the end of World War II, the United States experienced a baby boom following the return of millions of U.S. servicemen
China seizes Harry Wu, American citizen Naturalized American citizen. Harry Wu was seized entering China at the border in Kazakhstan. Mr. Wu was traveling on
Europe lags in population control funding An international forum of parliamentarians has complained about the European Union’s (EU) lag in population control funding. The European
When the explorers discovered the West Indies and America, they marked their conquest by planting the flag of their country, symbolizing their entitlement to the
Recently a large iceberg, estimated to be about the size of the state of Rhode Island, broke loose from the floating Larsen Ice Shelf of
No doubt the coming weeks leading up to the United Nations Fourth World conference on Women in Beijing in September will be filled with media
Newly initiated participants in the recent series of United Nations conferences, unfamiliar with UN bureaucratic language, were at a disadvantage in analyzing the resulting resolutions.
Although US State Department officials say they’re against coercive population control in China, they have led the effort to deny U.S. asylum to Chinese who