Population Issues Network Newswatch

Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

UN official calls for empowering women to fight poverty & other social ills

UNITED NATIONS, June 28 (APP): Empowering women and advancing their rights can lead to progress on a range of issues, including the fight against poverty, hunger and violence, the head of the U.N. agency tasked with promoting women’s rights said Tuesday.“Promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment is not solely a plea for justice or for fulfilling human rights commitments. It is both of those things, but also so much more,” Michelle Bachelet said in her opening statement to the annual session of the Executive Board of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).

“Where we fail to capitalize on the potential and talents of one half of the population, we also squander the potential to reduce poverty, hunger,disease, environmental degradation and violence,” she stated.

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