Role of the NGOs at ICPD PrepCom III: NGOs, particularly the women’s caucus led by the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) and the Women’s Development and Health Organization (WEDO), played an extremely active role in the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) negotiations. They

Rising Asian population to boost wheat trade Asia’s rising population is expected to “inject new life into the world’s wheat trade” according to the International Wheat Council (IWC) based in London. The IWC predicts the world wheat trade will reach 96 million tons, which is

UNFPA-run “round table” in Canada The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has recently published the results of its round table meeting held 26–27 August 1993 in Ottawa, Canada. Like well-behaved mice-in-a-maze, the 25 participants carried out the intent of the funders of the government-sponsored conference,

Population Doubling Times The Worldwatch Institute, an allegedly expert group on world population growth, recently demonstrated ignorance of some basic facts about the subject. In the March/April 1994 edition of its bi-monthly publication World Watch (37), the would-be population control outfit published a table of

This is the text of a message from the Roman Catholic Pontiff Pope John Paul II to Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund and Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Population and Development, during her visit to Vatican City,

So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth (Genesis 1: 27–28). Human fertility has

After President Bill Clinton’s State of the Union address in January 1994, the media were boundless in their reporting of the president’s freshened support among the American electorate. The clue to the country’s enthusiastic response was the president’s apparent support of “family values.” In the

Representatives of various national academies of sciences held a “Science Summit” in New Delhi, India, from 24-27 October, 1993. The meeting was held with the intent of providing a ‘scientific’ foundation for the resolutions of the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)

Sheldon Richman is a senior editor with the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. In his best-selling book, Earth in the Balance, U.S. Vice President Al Gore wrote, “No goal is more crucial to healing the global environment than stabilizing human population” During the U.S. presidential