Family Planning
Jul 19th, 2012 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org Population Reference Bureau (PRB) just released its 2012 World Population Data Sheet, showing that the world’s poorest countries will have the greatest population growth, due to high birth rates and a large youth population. Just one week after the London Summit on Family Planning, which raised $2.6 billion from donors for
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Tags: Consumption, demographic divide, Family Planning, Population Growth
Jul 15th, 2012 |
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At last week’s London Summit on Family Planning, a high-level gathering hosted by the Gates Foundation and the UK Department for International Development, donors pledged to provide $2.6 billion over the next eight years to help the world’s poorest women gain access to contraceptives. It has been called a “breakthrough for the world’s poorest women
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Jul 11th, 2012 |
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By Suzanne York, HowMany.org July 11, 2012 is World Population Day, and there are reasons to be hopeful that the subject of population, along with empowering women, will be attracting more positive attention and obtaining more positive results. We are very excited about the London Summit on Family Planning, sponsored by the Gates Foundation and
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Jul 4th, 2012 |
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by Suzanne York, HowMany.org – In the aftermath of the UN Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, which deliberately left reproductive rights out of the official outcome text, there is little time to feel discouraged. There are education and awareness campaigns to undertake, and alliances to build and strengthen – especially between the environmental and women’s
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Tags: Christopher Elias, contraception, Family Planning, Gates Family Planning Summit, Musimbi Kanyaro, reproductive rights
Jul 2nd, 2012 |
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by Suzanne York, HowMany.org – An experienced and learned colleague of mine asked me one evening at the start of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) if it really mattered what issues made it or didn’t make it into the official Rio+20 text known as “The Future We Want”. Symbolically, it seemed important to
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May 11th, 2012 |
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By Suzanne York, May 11, 2012 If you think there is one issue that could gain bi-partisan support in the U.S. Congress, ending child marriage would likely be near the top of the list. Not only would a little bi-partisanship be good for the country, but preventing girls from marrying too young would improve lives.
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Tags: Asia, Family Planning, Population Growth, reproductive choice, Women's empowerment, women's rights
Apr 25th, 2012 |
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By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, April 25, 2012 The Aspen Institute continued its series exploring living in a world of 7 billion people with an event this past April 18th, in a session called “A Long Walk to Water: Women, Population and Access to Safe Water.” As society grapples with a population projected to hit over
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Tags: Aspen Institute, Climate Change, Sustainable Living, water, Women's empowerment
Apr 23rd, 2012 |
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By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, April 18, 2012 In her TED talk in early April, Melinda Gates of the Gates Foundation mentioned that if the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in India were its own country, it would be the fifth largest in the world, with over 200 million people. And in this populated land,
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Tags: Climate Change, Consumption, Family Planning, Population Growth, Women's empowerment, Women's Health, women's rights
Apr 2nd, 2012 |
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By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, April 2, 2012 It’s very hard to comprehend that here we are in the 21st century, living in a supposedly advanced and democratic nation, and there is a huge debate about women’s rights – namely women’s access to and use of contraceptives in the United States. As a Generation X’er,
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Mar 14th, 2012 |
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By Suzanne York, HowMany.org, March 14, 2012 If you care about people and the planet, listen up! According to recent research, 8 in 10 environmentalists want to see population growth addressed along with a focus on consumption and clean energy. This is good news. We cannot afford to continue to “silo” the critical issues facing
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