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September 9, 2024 | Articles

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…...

September 9, 2024 | Articles

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),…...

September 9, 2024 | Articles

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…...

September 9, 2024 | Articles

Cultivating Hope in a World of 8 Billion Winners of the 2023–2024 Student Video Contest Announced Each year, the World of 8 Billion International Student Video Contest inspires us with hope as middle and high school students consider various global challenges. By participating, they become aware of these issues and…...

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Meet Our 2024 #Fight4HER Organizers! The 2024 edition of the #Fight4HER campaign is in full swing! We have six organizers on the ground in key congressional districts, working hard to educate and activate their respective communities around reproductive health and rights. They come to us with rich and diverse backgrounds,…...

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Maasai Harmonial Development and Sustainability Karen Gaia Pitts founded Maasai Harmonial Development and Sustainability in 2016 after her partner, Ben Parks, visited a Maasai student whose college tuition he had sponsored. The student, Isaack, lived in Nainokanoka Village in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania. When Ben visited, the…...

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Prudish even by the standards of the Victorian Age, Anthony Comstock ranks as one of the more bizarre and destructive figures in U.S. history. The founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873, Comstock boasted of hounding women to suicide by pursuing their prosecution for…...

June 10, 2024 | Articles

The region where I live was crippled by a beautiful but extremely destructive ice storm in March, a few days into spring (a seasonal designation that means nothing in Maine). We lost power for 45 hours, which was quite unpleasant since the “feels like” temperature outside hovered around 19 degrees.…...

June 10, 2024 | Articles

Earth Month Anchored Our Spring Events Virtual events have been in full swing this spring! Population Connection members and supporters brought all of their energy and enthusiasm to our slate of virtual events in the first half of 2024 — we hope you’ll be inspired to join us in the…...