April 2023 Update
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APRIL 2023
Dear John,
Apologies for the slight delay in sending your April update - it's a few
days late due to the May Day bank holiday in the UK!
We have plenty to share as ever, though. This month we participated in the
UN's 56th Commission on Population & Development in New York, where we made
a formal statement to the session outlining the importance of our work and
the relevance of education. We were very pleased that one of our Choice
Ambassadors [3], Nyombi Morris, an environmental activist from Uganda was
able to join our delegation.
Additionally, we announced a new Empower to Plan partner in April, the
Youth Voice Network Organisations. The network is working to improve the
lives and prospects of youngsters in Albania, helping to give them
autonomy over their own futures. We are also asking you to take action and
contact Apple CEO, Tim Cook, as part of our _We Don't Buy It_ campaign.
- The PM team
NEWS FROM POPULATION MATTERS
The Commission on Population & Development
This year, we attended the UN’s Commission for Population and Development
session for the first time ever. Its theme was 'the vital impact that
investing in quality education has on promoting opportunity and prosperity,
advancing gender equality and ensuring environmental sustainability’. Our
Communications Specialist, Florence Blondel, provides us with a summary of
the five days (and you can also watch her giving PM's three-minute
statement to the Commission).
Read more [4]
Giving you the tools to talk population
Our Population Explorer is a great way to start the population
conversation. It's interactive, easy to use and clearly shows the impact of
our human numbers on biodiversity, resources and climate change.
Try it out for yourself and please share it far and wide!
Read more [5]
Bringing population to the UN Water Conference
The first United Nations Water Conference in more than 40 years was held in
March, but we were disappointed that the population issue was nowhere to be
found on the agenda. We sent a small team from Population Matters to raise
the impact of our human numbers and start the population conversation.
Read more [6]
POPULATION & ENVIRONMENT
Earth4All People and Planet report
Earth4All’s new report is the latest attempt at modelling sustainable
population projections through the 21st century. It caused a number of
over-hyped newspaper headlines, but are its projections of a significant
fall in population by 2100 plausible?
Read more [7]
A spotlight on family planning in India
India was widely reported to have become the most populous country in the
world last month. France24 published an article with a specific focus on
family planning in India, interviewing our Head of Campaigns, Alistair
Currie, as part of the piece.
Read more [8]
WOMEN'S RIGHTS & SEXUAL HEALTH
Empowering young people in Albania
Our new Empower to Plan (E2P) partner, the Youth Voice Network of
Organisations in Albania, has been working to mobilise the potential of its
young people to contribute to and improve their own futures.
With E2P support, one of the Network’s members will deliver a bespoke
series of accessible workshops about sexual and reproductive and menstrual
health to 50 women and girls.
Read more [9]
Breaking the barriers of women's healthcare in Pakistan
According to the United Nations Population Fund Pakistan, one in five
women who want to avoid pregnancy is unable to access effective methods to
do so. In this guest post, activist and family planning leader, Laraib
Abid, writes about the issues faced by women in her country and the work
she’s doing around health and access to family planning.
Read more [10]
TAKE ACTION
EMAIL TIM COOK
_"Our environmental crisis is profound and more action is required. The
process of sourcing materials, component manufacture, transport for
assembly, assembly, marketing, sales and distribution is inevitably harmful
to our planet. A lower volume of products sold is the most effective way of
achieving genuine sustainability."_
Please take action today and email Apple CEO, Tim Cook, as part of our _We
Don't Buy It _campaign. The marketing models of companies like Apple
encourage us to buy new products that we just don't need, which takes a
heavy toll on the natural world. We are calling on Tim Cook to go further
than Apple's current environmental policy and truly prioritise people and
planet.
Email Tim Cook now [11]
Quote of the month
_"56 years is a long time – we cannot wait for CPD100 for each of us to
improve, provide evidence, or come up with solutions to improve the lives
of the world’s underserved population when the number keeps going up.
Every kind of solution is with us, but we are too slow to act."_
- Nyombi Morris, Environmental Activist, PM Choice Ambassador and
representative at CPD56 in New York
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