June 16, 2025 | Articles
We’re always looking for ways to get media attention with our rational but outspoken, rights-based take on population challenges. Newspaper editors tend, however, to be more interested in giving space to those threatening that low fertility and slower population growth will upend our economies and institutions — the demographic concern…...
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Photos courtesy of RUWDUC Population Connection’s thriving Global Partners program assists 18 community-based, locally-led organizations in several countries in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa and one organization in South Asia: RUWDUC in Nepal. Due to escalating climate change and land use changes, Nepal is more susceptible to flooding than in…...
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The months since Donald Trump was inaugurated have felt like decades, given how much damage he has done since re-taking office. While it has been hard to watch the freezing of foreign aid, the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the slashing of family planning…...
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A beaming force of passion and purpose, President’s Circle member Christopher Brown has been a long-time advocate for social justice, environmental conservation, and community building. Christopher grew up in the Bay Area in Northern California during a time of change, when cultural and political values were shifting. As a third-generation…...
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Special report: Population Connection at CPD58 Population Connection, alongside health ministers, ambassadors, and other civil society experts with consultative status, attended the 58th Session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD58) in April in New York City. CPD’s primary role is to monitor, review, and assess the…...
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… As President Franklin D. Roosevelt once observed, “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” The ongoing effort to shut down the United States Agency for…...
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“The world remains massively off track to limiting global warming to 1.5°C and avoiding the worst of climate catastrophe.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres The terrible toll of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 was exacerbated by lack of adequate fire escapes — 146 Greenwich Village factory workers…...
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Thank you for the information about vasectomies. It makes complete sense given the whole picture. I had one child, who had one child, who may have no children. I remember my parents’ childless friends (from the Depression). If you couldn’t afford children, you didn’t have them. My parents only had…...
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Photos courtesy of Turimiquire Foundation Venezuela’s political and socioeconomic strife is well documented, but the toll it takes on the reproductive health of Venezuelan people, especially those living in remote regions, is less widely discussed. The Turimiquire Foundation works in the northeastern coastal region of the country, delivering family planning…...
Read MoreMarch 10, 2025 | Articles
“I like how Population Connection isn’t afraid to assert that population growth is an environmental issue. Population growth is the root cause of so many issues we face, and it’s rarely discussed, even by other prominent environmental groups. I also appreciate your pro-choice advocacy work. I see the impacts in…...
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