July 11, 2019 is World Population Day – focus on reproductive health and rights a reality for all.

July 11, 2019
via UN.org (article link)

World Population Day, which seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987.

This year’s World Population Day calls for global attention to the unfinished business of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Twenty-five years have passed since that landmark conference, where 179 governments recognized that reproductive health and gender equality are essential for achieving sustainable development.

In November, UNFPA, together with the governments of Kenya and Denmark, will be convening a high-level conference in Nairobi to accelerate efforts to achieve these unmet goals.

On World Population Day, advocates from around the world are calling on leaders, policymakers, grassroots organizers, institutions and others to help make reproductive health and rights a reality for all.

According to an article in USA Today, today’s largest countries in population – China, India, and the United States – are expected to remain among the most populous. To read more:
Click Here.

CAPS unpacks population issues at local, state, national and global levels. To read about impacts of overpopulation, such as drought (“More people, less water. It is not a pretty picture,” Ric Oberlink, Executive Director of CAPS), please Click Here.