September 9, 2024 | Articles
“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism — an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.” — Kathryn Schulz, “The Really Big One,” The New Yorker Population Connection member and Seattle environmental attorney Rick Aramburu put me…...
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Portrait of Amina J. Mohammed courtesy of UN Photo Statement delivered at the 57th Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD57) on April 29, 2024, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, NY This year marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Programme of…...
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… Two-thirds of the world’s population lives in countries where the birth rate has fallen below replacement level. The EU’s fertility rate stands at 1.46. Russia’s is 1.5. India, home to 1.4 billion, dropped below 2.1 for the first time in 2020. But East Asia has seen the sharpest declines.…...
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New UN projections released on World Population Day On World Population Day (July 11), the United Nations Population Division released new data, World Population Prospects 2024, which project a peak of 10.3 billion people in 2084 — slightly lower and earlier than the 10.4 billion peak in 2086 that was…...
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There hasn’t been a major international convening on population challenges for 30 years, since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994. Before that, there was a UN population conference every decade, going back to 1954.* The UN does, however, have a Commission on Population and…...
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Population Connection members and supporters flocked to join us for virtual events throughout the steamy summer months. We hope you’ll join us again soon — or for the first time! Another interesting event is always around the corner. See what’s next here! June: World Rainforest Day Several of our Global…...
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House passes devastating Appropriations Bill On June 28, the House passed the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2025 by a party line vote of 212–200. The bill cuts funding for international family planning by 24%, bans funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),…...
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If you’ve subscribed to this magazine for a while, you’ve heard about Melvine Ouyo. We met her when she was the Clinic Director at Family Health Options Kenya, soon after FHOK lost US funding in 2017, thanks to Trump’s Global Gag Rule. She has been a consultant to the advocacy…...
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