Population Action International
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Talking to my son about sex and sustainability
"Are we going to talk about sex again?!" screamed my 12-year-old son. I had just sat down with him to have one of our father-son talks.
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What you don’t know about women, climate change, and population [VIDEO]
Here's a population angle you might not have considered before: Family planning can help women adapt to climate change that's already happening.
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Climate-change planning should include family planning
Women and their kids in Kunderpara, Bangladesh.The women of Kunderpara village are used to having water all around them. They live on an island in the middle of one of Bangladesh’s many large rivers. The women are even used to the occasional seasonal flood. But lately when the river floods, it takes on new, terrifying […]
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Population media awards go to me and other, more worthy journalists
The winners of the Population Institute's Global Media Awards for Excellence in Population Reporting do impressive work publicizing population issues.
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A Few Final Thoughts on the Population Issue
I’ve looked over all of the comments on both population-related posts and I’ll end with a few final observations: 1. A lot of this argument is one of semantics and logic. Many of the population-is-the-problem folks posit the issue like this: A. Humans are doing destructive things B. There are lots of humans C. There […]
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Women who can’t get birth control spotlighted in new short film — watch it here
The new short film Empty Handed: Responding to the Demand for Contraceptives showcases the plight of women in Uganda who want birth control but are being failed by a dysfunctional distribution system. The average Ugandan woman will give birth to 6.7 children — that’s the second-highest fertility rate in the world, behind only Niger. The […]
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Women’s rights are the right way to approach the population issue
Suzanne Ehlers, president of Population Action International.Suzanne Ehlers, the new 36-year-old president of Population Action International, likes to talk about “the magic of family planning.” If you give women around the world contraceptive tools and information, they’ll limit the size of their families of their own free choice, and that makes their families healthier, wealthier, […]