The earth's population will approach an unsustainable total of 10.5 billion unless contraception is put back at the top of the agenda for international efforts to alleviate global poverty. A report by MPs released today challenges world leaders to put the contraceptive pill & the condom at the centre of their efforts to alleviate global poverty, tackle starvation & even help to avert global warming. Gordon Brown has staked his future premiership on leading the world in tackling global poverty. And the report, by the all-party parliamentary group on population, development & reproductive growth, makes the point that the population surge presents a massive stumbling block for his ambition. Since the 1970s, when coercion was used in India & China, family planning has become a dirty word among environmental & hunger campaigners. But the report warns that 8 UN targets for reducing poverty in the developing world will be missed unless world leaders do more to stop the soaring birth rates. ...
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