Making a statement at the UN - April Supporters' Update

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April 2023

Apologies for the slight delay in sending your April update - it's a few days late due to the May Day bank holiday in the UK!

We have plenty to share as ever, though. This month we participated in the UN's 56th Commission on Population & Development in New York, where we made a formal statement to the session outlining the importance of our work and the relevance of education. We were very pleased that one of our Choice Ambassadors, Nyombi Morris, an environmental activist from Uganda was able to join our delegation.

Additionally, we announced a new Empower to Plan partner in April, the Youth Voice Network Organisations. The network is working to improve the lives and prospects of youngsters in Albania, helping to give them autonomy over their own futures. We are also asking you to take action and contact Apple CEO, Tim Cook, as part of our We Don't Buy It campaign.

- The PM team

NEWS FROM POPULATION MATTERS

The Commission on Population & Development

This year, we attended the UN’s Commission for Population and Development session for the first time ever. Its theme was 'the vital impact that investing in quality education has on promoting opportunity and prosperity, advancing gender equality and ensuring environmental sustainability’. Our Communications Specialist, Florence Blondel, provides us with a summary of the five days (and you can also watch her giving PM's three-minute statement to the Commission).

Giving you the tools to talk population

Our Population Explorer is a great way to start the population conversation. It's interactive, easy to use and clearly shows the impact of our human numbers on biodiversity, resources and climate change.

Try it out for yourself and please share it far and wide!

Bringing population to the UN Water Conference

The first United Nations Water Conference in more than 40 years was held in March, but we were disappointed that the population issue was nowhere to be found on the agenda. We sent a small team from Population Matters to raise the impact of our human numbers and start the population conversation.

POPULATION & ENVIRONMENT

Earth4All People and Planet report

Earth4All’s new report is the latest attempt at modelling sustainable population projections through the 21st century. It caused a number of over-hyped newspaper headlines, but are its projections of a significant fall in population by 2100 plausible?

A spotlight on family planning in India

India was widely reported to have become the most populous country in the world last month. France24 published an article with a specific focus on family planning in India, interviewing our Head of Campaigns, Alistair Currie, as part of the piece.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS & SEXUAL HEALTH

Empowering young people in Albania

Our new Empower to Plan (E2P) partner, the Youth Voice Network of Organisations in Albania, has been working to mobilise the potential of its young people to contribute to and improve their own futures. With E2P support, one of the Network’s members will deliver a bespoke series of accessible workshops about sexual and reproductive and menstrual health to 50 women and girls.

Breaking the barriers of women's healthcare in Pakistan

According to the United Nations Population Fund Pakistan, one in five women who want to avoid pregnancy is unable to access effective methods to do so. In this guest post, activist and family planning leader, Laraib Abid, writes about the issues faced by women in her country and the work she’s doing around health and access to family planning.

TAKE ACTION

Email Tim Cook

"Our environmental crisis is profound and more action is required. The process of sourcing materials, component manufacture, transport for assembly, assembly, marketing, sales and distribution is inevitably harmful to our planet. A lower volume of products sold is the most effective way of achieving genuine sustainability."

Please take action today and email Apple CEO, Tim Cook, as part of our We Don't Buy It campaign. The marketing models of companies like Apple encourage us to buy new products that we just don't need, which takes a heavy toll on the natural world. We are calling on Tim Cook to go further than Apple's current environmental policy and truly prioritise people and planet.

Email Tim Cook now

Quote of the month

"56 years is a long time – we cannot wait for CPD100 for each of us to improve, provide evidence, or come up with solutions to improve the lives of the world’s underserved population when the number keeps going up. Every kind of solution is with us, but we are too slow to act."

- Nyombi Morris, Environmental Activist, PM Choice Ambassador and representative at CPD56 in New York

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