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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

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

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

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

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,

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

UN Statistics: Population Decline Coming? The latest population statistics from the United Nations (U.N.), released just prior to the U.N. Conference on Population and Development convened last September in Cairo, point to a declining world population beginning about the year 2045.1 Although completely contrary to

Demographic studies have a necessary role in decisions related to the well-being of humanity. Historically, the need to enumerate the births and deaths in communities has been linked to the provision of basic necessities such as food and agriculture, health and education, access to water,

The economic principles of the “Third Way” offer a pathway between the extremes of capitalism and socialism. They are the essential elements of a “Declaration of Social Development through Personal Empowerment” published by the Population Research Institute and the Center for Economic and Social Justice.