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Reproductive Health in the United States

“Reproductive health…implies that people are able to have a responsible, satisfying, and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when, and how often to do so” (Progress in Human Reproduction Research, no. 30, 1994, World

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From the Countries

India acts to save girl babies: The Indian Parliament has acted to prevent doctors from telling parents the sex of their expected children. The high bride price for girls at marriage partially motivates poor Indian parents to prefer raising boys. The practice of female infanticide

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Global Monitor

The World Social Charter This document is to be included in the considerations of the World Summit on Social Development which is to be in Copenhagen in March 1995. WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD SOLEMNLY PLEDGE to build a new global civil society, based

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Paid to Persuade

The Women for Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) has been the lead non-governmental (NGO) organization of the Women’s Caucus at the United Nations during the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). To such a degree, in fact, that it can be difficult to differentiate

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Popcorn

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics 1.57, 1.53, 1.46 … Going, Going … In 1990 Japanese journalists coined the term “1.57 shock” when they learned that the nation’s birth rate — actually, the total fertility rate (TFR) — had fallen to a new low of just

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The Global Grasp of the Mob

The United Nations has reported an extensive “phenomena of the sale of children” for purposes of commercial adoption, child labour, organ transplantation, prostitution, and pornography (Vitit Muntarbhorn, “Sale of children,” United Nations Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights). In the arena of child

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From the Countries

Ghana Nana K. Rawlings, the First Lady of Ghana, stated that developed countries have pressured African countries “vigorously” emphasize population control programs, basing their arguments on statistics. “We do not quarrel with that logic, but we believe that a great deal can be learned from

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Global Monitor

U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, established a lengthy list of interlocked priorities in a document titled “Agenda 2l.” The Rio Declaration was presented as a legally non-binding,

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Laborem Exercens (selections)

Obviously the antinomy between labor and capital under consideration here — the antinomy in which labor was separated from capital and set up in opposition to it…did not originate merely in the philosophy and economic theories of the 18th century; rather it originated in the

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From the Countries

India acts to save girl babies: The Indian Parliament has acted to prevent doctors from telling parents the sex of their expected children. The high

Read More »

Global Monitor

The World Social Charter This document is to be included in the considerations of the World Summit on Social Development which is to be in

Read More »

Paid to Persuade

The Women for Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) has been the lead non-governmental (NGO) organization of the Women’s Caucus at the United Nations during the

Read More »

Popcorn

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics 1.57, 1.53, 1.46 … Going, Going … In 1990 Japanese journalists coined the term “1.57 shock” when they learned that

Read More »

The Global Grasp of the Mob

The United Nations has reported an extensive “phenomena of the sale of children” for purposes of commercial adoption, child labour, organ transplantation, prostitution, and pornography

Read More »

From the Countries

Ghana Nana K. Rawlings, the First Lady of Ghana, stated that developed countries have pressured African countries “vigorously” emphasize population control programs, basing their arguments

Read More »

Global Monitor

U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, established a

Read More »

Laborem Exercens (selections)

Obviously the antinomy between labor and capital under consideration here — the antinomy in which labor was separated from capital and set up in opposition

Read More »