September 9, 2024 | Articles
This has been a year of new United Nations (UN) involvement for Population Connection. In April, we co-hosted a side event to the 57th Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development. Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, a Population Connection board member and the Founder and Executive Director of Conservation Through…...
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We are thrilled to present the winners of our third annual Summer Photo Contest! Participants from across the country shared their breathtaking photos showcasing the scenic landscapes, rich cultures, and diverse wildlife that drive their commitment to working toward a sustainable future. Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to all…...
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#Fight4HER Summer Highlights Over the past few months, our 2024 #Fight4HER organizers in Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have continued guiding our reproductive health and rights campaign with impactful local events, ambitious petition gatherings, and dedicated planning for the end-of-summer regional HER Summits. Melvine Ouyo, a member of…...
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“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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