December 9, 2024 | Articles
I made a mistake in the last issue of the magazine when I wrote that the United Nations Pact for the Future was an agreement that was meant to succeed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) after their 2030 end date. Rather, the Pact is intended to reinvigorate UN member states…...
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“Meanwhile, his men were bridging the Hellespont from Asia to Europe. But no sooner had the strait been bridged than a great storm swept down, breaking and scattering everything. When Xerxes heard of this, he was very angry and commanded that the Hellespont be whipped with three hundred lashes …”…...
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… Far from following the sacred Hippocratic oath of “do no harm” to the human bodies in a doctor’s care, too many elected officials follow the cynical mantra of “do no harm to my reelection prospects.” Nor are most of these politicians women, let alone women of childbearing age who…...
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December 9, 2024 | Articles
2024 PopEd Leadership Institutes New Volunteer Trainers Attend Events in Charlotte and Detroit PopEd may be coming to a town near you. That’s in large part due to our wonderful network of volunteer facilitators, who present over half of our teacher workshops throughout the US and Canada. This year, we…...
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WWF issues dire warning on state of nature The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) latest Living Planet Report, published in October, estimates that vertebrate wildlife populations shrank by an average of 73% between 1970 and 2020 — an increase from the 69% drop between 1970 and 2018 reported in the 2022…...
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December 9, 2024 | Articles
Election Season Summits and Canvasses The #Fight4HER campaign was in full swing this fall, as we prepared for the 2024 general election. In mid-September, there were #Fight4HER summits in our six target locations: Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; New Hampshire; Columbus, Ohio; and the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania.…...
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The Woman Behind the Clinic Hannah leading a neonatal resuscitation training After Hannah Freiwald came to Guatemala from Germany over 35 years ago, she had two babies in quick succession. Her first birth, in 1989, was via emergency c-section due to excessive uterine contractions caused by the too-high dose of…...
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I’ve belonged to ZPG/Population Connection since the 1970s and always look forward to your quarterly magazine. I’ve written in recent years to take you to task for ignoring males in your issues and projects, but there is no change. What is obvious to me is evidently of little consequence to…...
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We are fortunate to have 40,000 members who care deeply about protecting the planet and improving the well-being of current and future generations of people around the world. Our members are also unfailingly committed to the conservation of the rest of Earth’s millions of species, which are crucial to functioning…...
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Tackling Myths, Boosting Clinical Skills, and Challenging Patriarchy Article and photos courtesy of Ipas Indonesia Family planning has been on the Indonesian government’s agenda since the 1950s. This program aims to prevent maternal and child deaths. However, access to family planning services remains uneven across Indonesia’s 38 provinces. Geographic conditions,…...
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