Fertility 2.1
Fertility is plummeting around the globe and countries are at a loss to solve the problems created by aging and population decline. Without robust workforces it will be impossible for African countries with emergent fiscal systems to sustain any kind of social protection floor in the future. While countries negotiate a document to address the challenges countries and [...]
The End of the MDGs?
This morning the Secretary General, and Rebeca Grynspan, Associate Administrator of UNDP, and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Special Adviser on the MDGs, held a press conference to report on the progress towards achieving the MDG’s. The SG described Sachs and Grynspan as his “top development experts and senior advisers.” They cited a report issued this week [...]
UN Secretary General Tells African Nations to Stop Discriminating Against Homosexuals
Yesterday, UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, was at the African Union Summit, and addressed the 54 African nations in attendance. His address urged countries to entrench civil, political and economic rights. During the address he told African nations to stop discriminating against homosexuals. The majority of Eastern and Western African nations criminalize homosexual acts, some [...]
IPPF gets new director
IPPF announced that Gill Greer is out and Tewodros Melesse is in as the new director-general. Melesse steps into the position as head of the world’s largest abortion provider from his job as IPPF’s Africa director. According to IPPF, Melesse, an Ethiopian national and graduate of the Catholic University in Louvain, was instrumental in implementing [...]
AIDS orphans blasts UN push of condoms and sex ed
Two AIDS orphans from Mozambique told UN delegates to stop pushing sex ed and condoms as “solutions” to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Speaking to the Commission on Population and Development, the two children – Luis and Amelia Belchior – told their story of watching their parents and brother die of AIDS. The siblings stressed that they [...]