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Family planning is reducing abortions. 计划生育正在减少堕胎。

Popline Pub Date : 1997-01-01

H R Clinton

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"Common sense" abortion assumption supported. “常识”堕胎假设得到支持。

Popline Pub Date : 1997-01-01

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Population, desert expanding. 人口，沙漠扩张。

Popline Pub Date : 1992-09-01

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Plastic condom developed. 研制出塑料避孕套。

Popline Pub Date : 1992-09-01

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Central America's shrinking forests. 中美洲正在萎缩的森林。

Popline Pub Date : 1992-09-01

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Distribution system in Bangladesh spurs decline in growth. 孟加拉国的分配系统刺激了经济增长的下降。

Popline Pub Date : 1992-07-01

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Pakistan embarks on new campaign to reduce fertility. 巴基斯坦开展新的降低生育率运动。

Popline Pub Date : 1992-07-01

{"title":"Pakistan embarks on new campaign to reduce fertility.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"There was both international and domestic significance in a plea for population stabilization issued by Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his address at the recent Earth Summit conference in Rio de Janeiro. Speaking as both a national leader and chairman of the Group of 77, a coalition of developing countries, Sharif said that to eradicate the abject poverty under which more than a billion people in the world live today \"developing countries must assume their full responsibility in limiting population growth to manageable levels.\" Those words may seem odd coming from the leader of a country that has been indifferent about population problems for the past 2 decades. Until Prime Minister Sharif made a public commitment to a population program last July, the last leader of Pakistan to take such action was the late President Ayub Khan in 1969. With an annual 3.1% growth rate, Pakistan's population of 122 million is projected to double in only 23 years. The average Pakistani woman has 6.1 children in her reproductive lifetime. Reduction of population growth was an issue in the October 1990 election campaign. After his Islamic Democratic Alliance won, the government named Syeda Abida Hussain, a prominent and popular politician, to the cabinet post of Minister of Family Welfare. Hussain, who is now Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, recalls that many experts felt that starting a population program would be \"an impossible undertaking, \"that\" attitudes were not conducive to family planning and government would never support it.\" In a speech on World Population Day in Rio, organized by the Population Institute, she said she soon found that \"the problems were managerial, not attitudinal.\" She maintained that the relatively low acceptance of contraception among the people of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India is not because of religion or ideology \"but because they are too poor to have access to birth control.\" Shortly after Hussain was names Minister of Family Welfare, she travelled throughout Pakistan to promote a small family norm. Under the new government program, family planning services would be provided along with maternal and child health services. Meanwhile, in an address before a national population conference, Prime Minister Sharif made a strong emotional appeal for a slowdown in population growth. He directed all government ministries and departments to provide all possible support. A recent study in Pakistan showed that the lack of service delivery outlets, rather than lack of awareness of family planning, was the reason behind the weak response to earlier programs. The study further indicated that 60% of married women either do not want more children or want to delay their next birth, but only 20% have access to family planning services. 90% said their desired family size was 4 children, yet they were having 7. The shortage of family planning services is especially acute in rural areas. While 54% of the country's 35 milli","PeriodicalId":85299,"journal":{"name":"Popline","volume":"14 ","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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UNICEF supports birth control despite Holy See. 联合国儿童基金会不顾教廷支持节育。

Popline Pub Date : 1992-07-01

T Deen

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House okays $330 million for population. 众议院为人口拨款3.3亿美元。

Popline Pub Date : 1992-07-01

{"title":"House okays $330 million for population.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"A total of $330 million for international population assistance has been approved by the US House of Representatives in the foreign operations appropriations bill for fiscal 1993. The legislation, which includes $20 million for the UNFPA, is expected to be considered by the Senate in the late summer or early autumn. The bill stipulated that the amount earmarked for UNFPA must be used solely for the provision of FDA-approved contraceptives and related logistics. Other restrictions placed on the funds specify that; none of the funds may be used in the People's Republic of China; they must be placed in a separate account and not co-mingled with any other funds; they may not be use to carry out any program, project or activity disapproved by the US Ambassador to the UN; the full amount must be refunded if UNFPA provides more than $57 million for its 5-year family planning program in china that began in 1990 and for which funds already have been committed. Once the largest donor to UNFPA, the US government has not contributed to the Fund since 1985 after the Reagan Administration and antifamily planning forces in Congress lashed out against UNFPA for its support of the allegedly coercive Chinese national family planning program. 2 USAID probes were unable to trace UNFPA funds to the forced abortions the Chinese government program was charged with encouraging and carrying out. Nevertheless, after Congress approved the 1989 foreign operations bill with $15 million earmarked for UNFPA, President Bush vetoed the measure. In his veto message, the President said that UNFPA \"participates in and strongly defends the program of a particular foreign government which relies heavily upon compulsory abortion.\" Pointing out that UNFPA has received no US assistance since 1985 \"precisely because of its involvement in this coercive abortion policy,\" Bush said the 1989 bill represented \"a radical and unwarranted change in policy.\" Although the President failed to name the country that \"relies heavily upon compulsory abortion\" congressional opponents of refunding UNFPA singled out China as that country. The Chinese government has repeatedly issued official denials that force or coercion are involved in its population policy or programs. Meanwhile, the Bush administration has been pushing hard for Congress to grant most favored nation trade status to China, UNFPA is the largest multilateral agency providing population assistance to developing countries. But Dr. Nafis Sadik, executive director of the Fund, says that \"requests for assistance from all regions have mounted to a level that can no longer be met by our organization.\" She pointed out that the demand for UNFPA support already exceeds the Fund's resources by $500 million. Additionally, she said, many countries--particularly in sub-Saharan Africa--want to expand their current population programs, and new requests are coming from the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Baltic States, and Easte","PeriodicalId":85299,"journal":{"name":"Popline","volume":"14 ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22028473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sustainability is multi-faceted. 可持续发展是多方面的。

Popline Pub Date : 1992-05-01

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