United Nations Population Fund

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United Nations Population Fund

An organization created by the United Nations and charged with promoting reproductive health. It provides funding for programs to discourage the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, to promote the use of contraceptives and to support healthy pregnancies and childbirths. The alleged role of the United Nations Population Fund in funding abortions and forced sterilizations has been a source of controversy.
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In 1997, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) published World Population Prospects: The 1996 Revision, in which it both significantly lowered its predictions of population growth--a routine occurrence over the past two decades--and also foresaw a global population "implosion," that is, a birthrate shrinkage marked by a graying of many industrialized nations' populations and a possibly economy-crushing burden of older citizens.
The Graying of the Industrialized World
According to Aprodicio Laquian, China program director of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, China's population policy is realistic and suits its current conditions.
No U.S. Support for Forced Abortion Programs
In 1984, the Reagan administration, at the request of the Vatican, announced at the World Conference on Population in Mexico City that it was reversing its many years of commitment to international family planning and then withdrew funding from the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Foreign political interference ... Vatican style
In 1972 the United Nations Fund for Population Activities initiated support for a programme of research within the International Labour Organization on population and employment.
G. M. Farooq and G. B. Simmons (eds.), Fertility in Developing Countries
funding for the two largest family planning assistance organizations in the world -- the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), based in London, England.
Family planning: U.S. policy changing?
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