POPULATION CONTROL

China accused of coercive population control over Uyghur Muslims

Michael Cook | 26 July 2020 | Comments

tags: china, population control, uyghurs

US Secretary of State calls it “shocking” and “disturbing”

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Demography still on the political agenda

Michael Cook | 07 September 2019 | Comments

tags: demographic winter, population control

Bernie Sanders stirs up a hornets’ nest

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‘Contraceptive revolution’ needed to curb population growth

Michael Cook | 11 August 2019 | Comments

tags: contraception, population control

NEJM features plea for more funding

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In times of climate crisis, how many children should you have?

Michael Cook | 17 June 2019 | Comments

tags: abortion, population control

None, according to several philosophers

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Is it ethical to have children as climate Armageddon approaches?

Michael Cook | 17 March 2019 | Comments

tags: childlessness, climate change, population control

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opens up a discussion with her followers

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Rohingya face population control pressure on both sides of the border

Michael Cook | 02 December 2017 | Comments

tags: bangladesh, contraception, population control, rohingya

Bangladesh is trying to sell the refugees on the virtues of contraception

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Indian state moves toward ‘two child policy’

Xavier Symons | 22 April 2017 | Comments

tags: abortion, india, one-child policy, population control

The Indian state of Assam may enact a strict 'two child policy' in response to concerns about rapid population growth in the region.

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Peru continues to debate legacy of forced sterilizations

Shena Cavallo | 24 September 2016 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, peru, population control

Former president Fujimori will not be prosecuted over alleged campaigns

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Let’s fight climate change with population engineering

Michael Cook | 17 September 2016 | Comments

tags: climate change, population control, population engineering

Bioethicists table strategies for reducing greenhouse gases

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Rohingyas battle population control

Michael Cook | 16 May 2015 | Comments

tags: Myanmar, population control, Rohingya

Myanmar finds a way to deal with its Muslim minority.

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China’s gender imbalance “most serious and prolonged in the world”

Xavier Symons | 24 January 2015 | Comments

tags: China, gender ratio, population control

China's government has made its strongest statement yet about gender imbalance.

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No contraception, no govt handouts, says Aussie politician

Michael Cook | 10 January 2015 | Comments

tags: Australia, contraception, population control

Make women responsible, says Gary Johns.

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Remembering the dark story of Peru’s population control campaign

Michael Cook | 06 December 2014 | Comments

tags: Peru, population control

Showcasing an interactive documentary about women and men who were sterilised in Peru in the mid-1990s by population controllers.

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Iran to boost birth rate by banning birth control

Michael Cook | 23 August 2014 | Comments

tags: birth control, Iran, population control

Iran is to ban vasectomies and female sterilization in an effort to reverse its plummeting birth rate

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Fujimori cleared of allegations of forced sterilization campaign

Xavier Symons | 23 February 2014 | Comments

tags: forced sterilization, peru, population control, sterilization

Peruvian state prosecutors have cleared Fujimori of crimes against humanity over a sterilization campaign in the 1990s.

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Myanmar imposing population control on Muslim minority

Michael Cook | 01 June 2013 | Comments

tags: Myanmar, population control, Rohingya

It is hard to imagine a more inhumane policy than China’s one-child policy. But there is one: the two-child policy imposed on Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.

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Dan Brown’s latest thriller tackles transhumanism

Michael Cook | 25 May 2013 | Comments

tags: genetic engineering, population control, transhumanism

Inferno: Robert Langdon is back with a globe-trotting thriller in which the symbologist has to decode clues left in a map of Dante’s masterpiece by a recently-deceased evil genius before one-third of the world perishes. Oops, we are about to give away too much of the plot. Suffice it to say that the master of transmuting highbrow trivia, European travel guides and clunky prose into dollars has framed transhumanism as the most dangerous threat to the future of mankind.

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Horror in a mass sterilization camp in India

Xavier Symons | 03 March 2013 | Comments

tags: India, population control, sterilization

Earlier this month four doctors in a West Bengal public hospital performed up to 106 sterilization operations in a single day, with hospital staff dumping patients in a nearby field to recover.

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Uzbekistan may be secretly sterilising women

Jared Yee | 21 April 2012 | Comments

tags: informed consent, population control, sterilization

Uzbekistan has a policy of secretly sterilising women, according to the BBC.

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A Model Proposal for eliminating poverty in Motor City

Michael Cook | 22 February 2012 | Comments

tags: eugenics, population control

The eugenic temptation is ever with us. This seems to be the lesson conveyed by Editorial Page Editor of The Detroit News, Nolan Finley.

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