Malaria Continues to Threaten Pregnant Women and Children
(2001) Malaria threatens at least 24 million pregnancies each year in Africa, the continent most affected by this disease according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Area of Expertise: Children, Youth, and Families
Understanding and Using Population Projections
Government policymakers and planners around the world use population projections to gauge future demand for food, water, energy, and services, and to forecast future demographic characteristics.
Quebec’s Alternative to Pronatalism
(December 2001) For centuries, fertility was seen as central to the survival of Quebec’s distinct French-Canadian culture. The province’s political elite and its clergy successfully promoted relatively high fertility rates to overcome subordination to English-Canada.
Elderly Americans
(2001) The United States is in the midst of a profound demographic change: the rapid aging of its population. The 2000 Census counted nearly 35 million people in the United States 65 years of age or older, about one of every eight Americans.
Trafficking in Persons: Myths, Methods, and Human Rights
(2001) In a 2001 report published by Amnesty International, a 27-year-old Ukrainian psychologist and social worker told of being trafficked to Israel.
Delivery Care Is Key for Maternal Survival: A Story of Two States in Nigeria
Yemi Omoshola, a woman from Lagos State, in southwestern Nigeria, needed blood desperately. Her doctor’s attempts to induce delivery of her overdue baby had caused excessive bleeding.
Population Trends and Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa
(2001) The people of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have long played an integral, if sometimes volatile, role in the history of human civilization.
Le trafic des personnes : mythes, méthodes et droits de l’homme
(Novembre 2001) Dans un rapport publié en 2001 par Amnesty International, une psychologue et assistante sociale ukrainienne de 27 ans raconte qu’elle a été vendue en Israël.
Domestic Violence: An Ongoing Threat to Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2001) Despite laws against domestic violence, many women in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to be failed by the legal system.
Urbanization Takes on New Dimensions in Asia’s Population Giants
(October 2001) For the first time, more half of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by the end of this decade.