The UN estimates that the humanitarian crisis caused by the recent floods in Pakistan's Indus Valley is larger than the combined effects of the three worst natural disasters of the past decade. Some experts attribute the severity of the floods to climate change.
A pioneering conservation and development initiative in Madagascar backed by PSN has become the first conservation project in the country to receive support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
The world's population is growing rapidly, increasing the risk of poverty, political instability and climate change. We're calling for concerted action to slow and stabilise the world's population growth.
The German Foundation for World Population (DSW) and the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF) have published their joint report Mapping European Development Aid and Population Assistance.
There are over a dozen estimates of the financial resources needed to improve reproductive health used by the reproductive health community.
Local leaders at grass-roots level in Umudugudu, are championing the family planning drive given the threats posed by the country's fast growing population.
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has defied the Catholic Church by criticizing its bishops' opposition to the use of condoms as a means of preventing the spread of HIV-AIDS.
Nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped slums in the past decade, but the housing effort was outstripped by population growth and rural exodus to the cities, the United Nations said.
Muir Russell report says scientists did not fudge data, but they should have been more open about their work
PSN has recently taken on the task of co-ordinating The Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA).
The leaders have failed to deliver on a pledge to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, scientists say.
The World Bank has released a Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015 to help less developed countries reduce high fertility and prevent the number more than 350,000 deaths of women each year in pregnancy and childbirth complications.
PSN has co-authored a new paper which explores the links between population dynamics and climate change.
The new British Prime Minister wants goal of 3 million more lives saved by 2015 £5m fund for midwives in developing nations.
The world's largest conference on women's health and empowerment in more than a decade opens on June 7, in Washington DC, with a call to increase funding commitments for maternal, reproductive, and newborn health by US$12 billion each year. More than 3,000 representatives from nearly 140 countries will highlight the urgent need to save the lives of the 350,000-500,000 women who die from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes each year, citing new economic rationale for investing in women.
On 20 April, PSN joined hundreds of organisations from around the world in signing letters to Representative Nita Lowey and Senator Patrick Leahy, calling on them to take action to prohibit the future imposition of the dangerous Global Gag Rule on health and family planning providers working overseas.
All three of the UK political party leaders are now on record about their plans to fight extreme poverty.
The UN is currently holding a meeting of the Commission on Population and Development in New York, looking at the issues of health, mortality morbidity and development.
For the first time in decades, researchers report a significant drop worldwide in the number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth.
Columbia University researchers have concluded that severe water shortages in the Southeast of the United States result from population growth more than rainfall patterns.