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2005 World Population Data Sheet

This popular annual data sheet contains the latest population estimates, projections, and other key indicators for 200 countries, including births, deaths, natural increase, infant mortality, total fertility, life expectancy, urban population, HIV/AIDS prevalence, contraceptive use, GNI PPP per capita, land area, and population per square mile. (August 2005)

http://www.prb.org/pdf05/05WorldDataSheet_Eng.pdf

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A Decade After Cairo: Women's Health in a Free Market Economy

The 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo was heralded as a "quantum leap" forward and a "paradigm shift in the discourse about population and development". Its Programme of Action, endorsed by 179 countries and intended to establish international and national population policy for the following two decades, was the first and most comprehensive international policy document to promote the concepts of reproductive rights and reproductive health. One decade later, however, maternal mortality worldwide remains high. Some 600,000 women die each year, 95 per cent of them in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, and 18 million are left disabled or chronically ill because of largely preventable complications during pregnancy or childbirth. This briefing summarises the actions of several women's groups to influence the outcome of the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development and evaluates with hindsight some of the successes and failures of the Programme of Action. (The Corner House, June, 2004)

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/item.shtml?x=62140#introduction

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A Guide to Research Findings on the Cairo Consensus

A Guide to Research Findings on the Cairo Consensus is a handy tool for locating some of the many materials published on the major issues addressed at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), in Cairo. The guide contains roughly 180 entries from nearly 50 organizations conducting research on Cairo's themes.

http://www.fhi.org/en/RH/Pubs/booksReports/cairoconsensus/index.htm

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A League Table of Teenage Births in Rich Nations

This report presents and analyses the latest internationally comparable data on teenage births in OECD countries. Innocenti Report Card Issue No. 3 JULY 2001 (UNICEF).

http://www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/repcard3e.pdf

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Action Alert: ICPD Programme of Action Under Attack

Prepared by Action Canada for Population and Development. From December 11-17, 2002, the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference (APPC) will be held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. At the Second Preparatory Committee Meeting for this Conference held October 29-31, negotiations were held on a draft plan of action. The text will be finalized in December. If it were adopted in its current form, the current draft document would be a serious step back from the Programme of Action adopted at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo. Furthermore, to the shock of many delegations, the Bush administration announced at this meeting that it was unable to reaffirm its commitment to the ICPD Programme of Action and that this position was not negotiable.

http://www.acpd.ca/acpd.cfm/en/section/actionalert/articleID/181

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ARGENTINA: Training Health Agents to Reduce Child Mortality

An ambitious new programme for training health agents to help reduce infant mortality in small rural communities and indigenous villages, launched by one of Argentina's best-known human rights groups, drew many more applicants than the organisers had hoped for. (By Marcela Valente, IPS, April 28, 2008)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42154

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Asia-Pacific Alliance: Advancing the ICPD agenda

The Asia-Pacific Alliance: Advancing the ICPD Agenda (APA/ICPD) is a network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), overseas development agencies (ODAs), and philanthropic foundations from donor countries in the Pacific Rim (Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States). It promotes effective implementation of the Programme of Action adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994 at Cairo and supplemented by Key Actions adopted by the 21st Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on ICPD + 5 in 1999.

http://icpd.eastwestcenter.org/

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Asia-Pacific Population & Policy: "Population and environmental challenges in Asia"

by Vinod Mishra, 'Asia-Pacific Population & Policy' , No. 63 Abstract Population growth and economic development contribute to many environmental problems in Asia. These include pressure on land, habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity, water scarcity and water pollution, air pollution, and global warming and climate change. Projections of future resource requirements and environmental stress are worrying, whether the focus is on population numbers alone or on the effects of poorly planned economic development and changing consumption patterns. [from East West Center]

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/res-rp-publicationdetails.asp?pub_ID=1317

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Asian Metacentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis

The Asian MetaCentre is a research programme focusing on population issues in Asia. The work of the Asian MetaCentre will be largely based on collaboration in the internet, and through a series of research seminars and training workshops. Substantively, analysis will focus on the complex set of Population Development-Environment (PDE) interactions in the region, on population forecasting and projections, age-structural transitions and ageing, changing family structures, fertility, international migration in the region, and the consequences of those population dynamics on human well-being and health. The Asian MetaCentre's major aims include networking among Asian population experts, capacity building and the advancement of research methodologies, in-depth case studies and collaborative researches.

http://www.populationasia.org/

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Bali Declaration on Population and Sustainable Development

Fourth Asian and Pacific Population Conference. 19-27 August 1992. (PDF)

http://www.unescap.org/pop/5appc/bali.pdf

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Curriculum Kit on Population and Development

A major focus of ARHA's activities is educational work with young people. Over the past few years we have run a series of youth conferences titled "Planet Without a Plan". These are educational seminars which generally involve groups of students from several schools. Topics discussed include sustainable development, global population issues, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, reproductive rights, gender equity and the environment. This kit is intended to complement the youth conferences by providing ideas and resources for teachers and students to work on these issues within the classroom. The kit was originally produced for Victorian Schools in 2000. As the issues covered in the kit change so rapidly, the kit was updated in December 2001. Where possible, website and other contact details for relevant organizations have been provided so people using the kit can continue to update the information. The kit comes with handouts ready for use in the classroom, and can be downloaded.

http://www.arha.org.au/curriculum_kit.html

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Decades of Disparity III: ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in mortality, New Zealand 1981 - 1999 (PDF, 957 kB)

Decades of Disparity III is the third (and last) in a series of monitoring reports which use census and mortality records to monitor trends in ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in mortality. It finds that socioeconomic status is reflected in mortality rate. Māori were disproportionately represented in lower socioeconomic strata however measured. Even within socioeconomic strata Māori/non-Māori inequalities in mortality largely persist. There was a widening inequalities in socioeconomic resources (especially position in the labour market) between Māori and non-Māori during the 1980s and 1990s. (Ministry of Health, May 2006)

http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagesmh/4702/$File/decades-of-disparity-III.pdf

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DemoNetAsia

DemoNetAsia is a collaborative network of population research institutes in Asia. It was set up at a training workshop on "Advanced Use of Internet for Population Research" organised by the United Nations at ESCAP in Bangkok in December 2000. The purpose of the Network is to promote collaboration among institutions in the region, to help them address the challenges that they face regarding the adoption of new technologies of information and communication for their research and training activities. This website offers a convenient entry point to the websites of the members and partners of the Network, reports of Network activities, and an extensive collection of high quality links to online resources in the field of population

http://www.demonetasia.org/

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FPA International Development (FPAID)

FPA International Development (FPAID) is a unit within the Family Planning Association (FPA) in New Zealand. FPA is a not-for-profit non-government organisation. Established in 1996, FPAID works to: - Raise awareness of world population and development issues. - increase commitment to sexual and reproductive health programmes in Asia and the Pacific, including family planning.

http://www.fpaid.org.nz/

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Growing Up Urban

This is the second edition of the Youth Supplement to UNFPA's State of World Population. The 2007 report focuses on urbanization; the Youth Supplement addresses the challenges and promises of urbanization as they affect young people. In 2008, for the first time, more than half of the world's population will live in urban areas, and the number and proportion of urban young people is increasing dramatically. Most will be born into poor families, where fertility tends to be higher (UNFPA, 2007).

http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/702_filename_youth_swop_eng.pdf

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Investing in People: National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994-2004 (pdf)

UNFPA, 2004. This Global Survey includes responses from 169 countries on the steps they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action, including measures related to population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS. The report also presents actions these countries still need to take to achieve the ICPD goals.

http://www.unfpa.org/publications/index.cfm?ID=179

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Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada (PPFC)

The only non-government organisation in Canada that provides services, information and counselling exclusively on sexual and reproductive health. For more than 30 years, PPFC has worked nationally and internationally to ensure that people have access to universal, reliable information and services in order to make informed decisions related to their sexual and reproductive health. PPFC are working toward a time when they celebrate our sexuality and the diversity of its expression. They envision a society where every individual has a positive sexual self-image that is both joyous and healthy.

http://www.ppfc.ca/

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POPLINE

POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic reproductive health database, is available free of charge on the Internet. POPLINE provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature in the field of population, family planning, and health related issues

http://www.popline.org

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Population and Community Development Association (PDA)

A non-government, non-profit organisation committed to serving Thailand's rural poor. Founded in 1974, the Population and Community Development Development Association is one of Thailand's most well established, diverse and well respected organisations. This web site has been established to tell people about the activities of PDA, activities which include family planning, AIDS care and prevention, integrated rural development, training and education, medical services and rural environmental programs. This Web site has been designed to provide information on the many operations of PDA, grouped under several general activity areas. You are welcome to browse this site to discover how one organisation can make a difference to the lives of the rural poor in Thailand.

http://www.sli.unimelb.edu.au/pda/

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Population and Reproductive Health - The Development Gateway

This Web site is an Internet initiative that provides a community-built database of information regarding population and reproductive health. The site offers research; projects; a news service; a bulletin board; an events calendar; and population/ reproductive health project information from a shared database that includes activities by donor agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the UNFPA. In addition, the site provides a discussion forum on reproductive health and population topics, and promotes innovative knowledge-sharing arrangements among expert organizations in the field. For researchers and book lovers, this site also contains a development bookstore where users can shop for publications on development issues from a range of publishers worldwide. Visitors to the Web site are able to sign up for free membership, which entitles them to receive regular updates on added resources.

http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/146526/

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Population Explosion Threatens to Trap Africa in Cycle of Poverty

There are 27.7 million people in Uganda. But by 2025 the population will almost double to 56 million. Startling as they are, the projections are feasible, and a glance at some of the variables shows why. A typical Ugandan woman gives birth to seven children - an extraordinarily high fertility rate that has remained largely unchanged for more than 30 years. Half the population is under 15, and will soon move into childbearing age. Fewer than one in five married women has access to contraception. Taken together, the factors point to a population explosion that has demographers and family planning experts warning that efforts to cut poverty are doomed unless urgent measures are taken. (The Guardian, August 25, 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1857730,00.html

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Population Information - Africa (POPIA)

The Population Information - Africa (POPIA) is an initiative led by the Sustainable Development Division (SDD) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to establish an on-line space aimed at sharing and disseminating population and development-related information among African policy makers, planners and researchers.

http://www.uneca.org/popia

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Population Leadership Program

The Population Leadership Program (PLP) was initiated in 1994 to support the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) strategic objectives in population, family planning (FP), and reproductive health

http://www.popldr.org/

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Population Reference Bureau Country Statistics

PRB's data finder provides quick access to essential information on population, health, and the environment for over 200 countries. The database lets you search by country on a wide variety of health and population indicators. Funding for these pages has been provided by the United States Agency for International Development.

http://www.prb.org/DataFind/datafinder7.htm

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State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth

In 2008, for the first time, more than half of the world's population will be living in urban areas. By 2030, towns and cities will be home to almost 5 billion people. The urban population of Africa and Asia will double in less than a generation. This unprecedented shift could enhance development and promote sustainability-or it could deepen poverty and accelerate environmental degradation. The 2007 State of World Population report outlines the challenges and opportunities presented by the coming, inevitable urban growth. It also dispels many misconceptions about urbanization and calls on policymakers to take concerted, proactive steps to harness the potential of cities to improve the lives of all (UNFPA, 2007).

http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/695_filename_sowp2007_eng.pdf

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