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April 11th 2013
UK: Act to keep sex ed real
The UK Government's proposed science curriculum threatens to water down existing sex education, not strengthen it. This is the only sex education in primary school. Vital information about the body... -
March 28th 2013
The need for sex education (press release)
Population Matters regrets the government’s decision not to make Sex and Relationships Education a statutory requirement for British schools. The government has taken insufficient account of Britain’s high rate of abortions... -
March 28th 2013
The cost of larger families (press release)
Population Matters calls for child benefit to be limited to the first two children to address Britain’s baby boom. Britain is facing a baby boom with 250,000 more school places now... -
March 25th 2013
UK population growing faster than economy (press release)
Commentators on the Budget do not seem to have noticed that, while GDP is forecast to grow at 0.6%, the population is growing at 0.7%. While this continues, it means... -
March 8th 2013
International Women’s Day 2013 (press release)
Women’s empowerment is a fundamental requirement for sustainability and a prosperous future. Women’s empowerment is a requirement for sustainability and is in the interests of all, men and women. Only when... -
February 20th 2013
Population growth drives housing crisis (press release)
The UK's dramatic population growth projection by the Office for National Statistics – 11 million more people by 2035, equivalent to 22 more Manchesters, mostly in England, already Europe's most... -
February 14th 2013
PopOffsets grants support family planning (press release)
PopOffsets, the unique carbon offset scheme of Population Matters, has donated £5,000 each to the Population, Health & Environment Consortium in Ethiopia and the Margaret Pyke Centre in London. PHE Ethiopia... -
January 30th 2013
HS2 – population growth to blame (press release)
The £33bn high speed rail plan is proving controversial because of its vast cost in an age of austerity and the impact on the countryside. Some of the reasons given in... -
January 24th 2013
Lower birth rates needed to end hunger (press release)
Population Matters today rejected that claim from new campaign group ‘Enough food IF’ that changes to global governance and aid flows were sufficient to “end hunger for ever”. Commented Simon Ross,... -
January 24th 2013
Is humanity a plague? (press release)
Sir David Attenborough, patron of Population Matters, has talked in an interview with the Radio Times of humanity being a plague on the Earth. What did he mean? Surely he...
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