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More action needed on reproductive rights for all

Lynne Featherstone, Ministerial Champion for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Overseas, 7 April 2014 - Girls & Women

Twenty years ago the world took an important step in agreeing that population is not just about measuring the numbers of people in the world, it is about the quality of lives of individuals and that every person counts. At …

Booming Ethiopia

Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, 2 April 2012 - Africa, Education, Nutrition

When his Boomtown Rats career was arguably past its zenith, Bob Geldof came to global prominence with Live Aid, demanding that the world focus and do something about the terrible mid-1980s famine in Ethiopia. At the time I was a …

It's time to talk about population

Andrew Mitchell, 31 October 2011 - Girls & Women, Health

Population has become a dirty word. It is a word that many of my predecessors and counterparts have, some might say understandably, steered clear of for decades. That's because it is normally followed by words like 'control' and 'explosion'. It …

More action needed on reproductive rights for all

Booming Ethiopia

It's time to talk about population

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