L'urgence de la crise climatique et de ses impacts croissants exige que nous répondions avec une urgence égale pour construire l'adaptation et la résilience, en particulier pour les populations confrontées aux bouleversements les plus importants.
In 2008, the United Nations announced that 50 percent of the world's population now lives in urban areas, a milestone in demographic history.
(2010) In the United States, the number of children in single-mother families has risen dramatically over the past four decades, causing considerable concern among policymakers and the public.
(2004) A new comparative study using nationally representative information on domestic violence in nine developing countries finds that women whose fathers abused their mothers are twice as likely to suffer domestic abuse themselves.
(2011) For more than 20 years, since the first data collection in Sudan in 1989, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) team at Macro International has been tracking the prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation and female circumcision.
(2003) A census is inevitably a blend of politics and science — politics because power and money are linked to how many people live where, science because the technically complex undertaking draws on many scientific disciplines.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Data and Trends Update 2017, produced with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, provides the latest data on the practice in 29 developing countries with representative and comparable data—although FGM/C occurs worldwide.