Population Headliners

• States should promote jobs and education for older people, says Commission on Population and Development

• 2.5 billion increase in world population by 2050: United Nations estimates

• UNESCAP marks 60th anniversary with pride and commitment

• Why should “son preference” be so strong: Amartya Sen

• UNESCAP 60th anniversary book reflects on demographic transition, looks back at contribution in field of population

• People in the headlines

• “Large funding gap” for family planning highlighted

• Gender inequality costs the region 80USD billion a year, says 2007 Economic and Social Survey

• 2007 ESCAP Population Data Sheet displays poverty rates and figures on disability

• New release

• AFGHANISTAN: UNFPA urges investment in women’s health to stem maternal death

• Ms. Thoraya A. Obaid and Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan Dr. Sayed Mohammed Amin Fatemi inaugurating Afghanistan’s first facility for obstetric fistula surgery. (Photograph by William A. Ryan/UNFPA)

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