December 11, 2023 | Article
Los Angeles Times The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice decision decriminalizing abortion last week is a landmark ruling in a country that has historically outlawed the procedure with harsh penalties for the women who sought it and the health care professionals who provided it. … Yet, as Mexico and other…...
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August 27, 2024 | Post
Most Americans don’t have a will or estate plan. Why? Simple procrastination! August is National Make-a-Will Month and the perfect reminder to create or update your will. To help get you started, we wanted to share a few tips on the basics of planned giving (what does that mean exactly??),…...
Read MoreJune 10, 2024 | Article
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…...
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June 12, 2023 | Article
As the planet continues to warm, humans are destroying the largest tropical carbon sink[a] in the world due to poverty, conflict, and population growth. The forests of the Congo Basin, in west-central Africa, provide invaluable environmental services, including harboring thousands of species, increasing rainfall in drier regions that desperately need…...
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April 22, 2020 | Post
The coronavirus pandemic canceled in-person events for Earth Day 2020 — the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day — so we asked supporters to participate from home by taking our Earth Day Challenge! Beginning on April 1, we asked participants to consider one challenge each day to reduce their individual…...
Read MoreSeptember 19, 2022 | Article
On World Population Day, July 11, 2022, the United Nations Population Division released updated population estimates and projections for the world and all countries. This article describes some of the main findings, based primarily on the summary report of World Population Prospects 2022. According to the new assessment, the world’s…...
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October 14, 2021 | Resource
Download Slide Deck Access to family planning services is recognized internationally as a human right, as there are few rights more fundamental than the ability to choose whether, when, and with whom to have children. Expanding access to family planning services also yields myriad social, economic, and environmental benefits and…...
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July 6, 2022 | Post
We will become a world of 8 billion in 2022. After passing the 7 billion milestone in 2010, it has only taken 12 years to add the latest billion. When Did the World Population Reach 1 Billion? Until the Industrial Revolution began, birth rates and death rates were both very…...
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June 1, 2020 | Article
Originally published by The Nation on February 18, 2020 Scientists have fingered bats and pangolins as potential sources of the virus, but the real blame lies elsewhere—with human assaults on the environment. It could have been a pangolin. Or a bat. Or, as one now-debunked theory that made the rounds…...
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March 22, 2024 | Post
Funding for international family planning programs has stalled, while the number of women in need of contraception keeps growing. Empowering women to choose whether and when to get pregnant is key to fulfilling basic human rights and generates unmatched benefits across all areas of development. So why aren’t governments prioritizing…...
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