Water, Water Everywhere A recent report concerning the sustainability of Egyptian agriculture1 provided some interesting facts about Egypt’s potential water resources. Long pictured as an international basket case in regards to its water supplies and needs, Egypt has routinely been relegated to one of the

At the Third Preparatory session for the Fourth World Women’s Conference (FWWC) held at the United Nations (April 1995), the definition of the word “gender” became a matter of controversy. The dispute was of particular significance since the reference to “gender” occurs 300 times in

With the approach of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, it is appropriate for scholars to reflect on the status of women in modern society, on the changes that have occurred in that status and on the plans for future changes. Differences between

The involvement of the United Nations and the industrialized nations in aggressive population control programs has triggered deep and often justified suspicion among the people of the various nations. A recent series of incidents explains some concerns. On 17 October 1994, a national vaccination campaign

The World Summit for Social Development (WSSD), or the Social Summit as it is being called, is to be held in Copenhagen, March 1995. The fifth in a series of six United Nations’ Conferences, it follows the Cairo Conference on Population and Development and precedes

Shanghai population growth rate keeps dropping below zero Population growth rate of this, china’s biggest city, which dropped below zero in 1993 for the first time, is expected to drop further in 1994 according to Sun Zuyao, chief of the Shanghai municipal statistics bureau. The

Specific U.N. fund collection methods Demilitarization funds are to be created from cuts in military spending. According to the terms of the Oscar Arias Peace Plan, if military spending were to be cut by three percent a year by the nations of the world —

Save the World: Breed Smaller People An article in the January-February issue of The Futurist magazine,1 titled “Short is Beautiful,” strongly advocated an unusual solution to the alleged problems of overpopulation and mankind’s excessive consumption of the world’s resources: breed a new human race of

“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