(2010) In 1970, then-President Ferdinand Marcos launched the Philippines' first National Population Program to improve access to family planning to lower fertility and slow population growth. Fertility has declined since then, although the level is still high compared with other countries in Southeast Asia.
(2003) The successes are real, but they're small compared to the task: reaching the half-million adolescents who form some 20 percent of this island's 2.5 million population and enabling them to adopt healthier sexual lifestyles.
Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)
(2013) The persistent separation of racial groups across U.S. neighborhoods has lessened slightly due to mixed-race marriages, according to researchers at Pennylvania State University and the University of Washington.
New research finds that African countries saw infections and deaths at rates similar to countries in other regions, contradicting official reports.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2014) Countries around the world are paying more attention to inequality as an indicator of social and economic well-being.
(2002) According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), reproductive health care is among the crucial elements that give refugees the basic human welfare and dignity that is their right.1
2007) In 2005, about 191 million people—3 percent of the world's population—were international migrants, according to UN estimates.
Attempts at immigration reform should address issues that have been with us, in various guises, for at least a century.