Mexico’s fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 6.8 children per woman in the late ’60s and continues its downward slide. “The goal of the current population policy is to reach replacement rate fertility,” National Population Council (CONAPO) Director Elena Zuniga told PRI this year. “We
Thanks to the good offices of the First Lady of Mexico, Marta Sahagún de Fox, PRI was recently able to interview the head of Mexico’s Consejo Nacional de Población (National Population Council). CONAPO, as it is called for short in Spanish, was set up in
January 6, 2003 Volume 5/ Number 1 Dear Colleague: A growing number of governments are questioning the wisdom of supporting the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). As the UNFPA continues to distort the U.S. State Department’s findings that it supports forced abortion in China, new evidence
More than 300 Mexican women have documented their experiences with forced sterilization at the hands of Mexican population controllers, and an activist group claims to have gathered evidence of “thousands” more. “Women are being trampled. Their rights are being trampled,” said Jorge Serrano Limon, director
Shave, haircut condom, vasectomy …? The Dominican Republic Family Planning Association (Adoplafam), in cooperation with the U.N. Population Fund, began a project in 1991 to increase men’s awareness of responsible fatherhood and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. Adoplafam trained 140 barbers to serve as resource
Promoting population control through religion The Institute for Development Training (IDT) attempts to bend religious principle to the promotion of population control through “educational” materials. Among the financial contributors to these efforts are Population Action International; United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia; Frank
Mexico’s fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 6.8 children per woman in the late ’60s and continues its downward slide. “The goal of the current
Thanks to the good offices of the First Lady of Mexico, Marta Sahagún de Fox, PRI was recently able to interview the head of Mexico’s
January 6, 2003 Volume 5/ Number 1 Dear Colleague: A growing number of governments are questioning the wisdom of supporting the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA).
More than 300 Mexican women have documented their experiences with forced sterilization at the hands of Mexican population controllers, and an activist group claims to
Shave, haircut condom, vasectomy …? The Dominican Republic Family Planning Association (Adoplafam), in cooperation with the U.N. Population Fund, began a project in 1991 to
Promoting population control through religion The Institute for Development Training (IDT) attempts to bend religious principle to the promotion of population control through “educational” materials.
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