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    What a Second Trump Term Means for Reproductive Rights

    Today, Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th US President, ushering in renewed threats to reproductive rights. As part of Population Matters’ Welcome to Gilead campaign, Madeleine Hewitt interviews Olivia…

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    Viktor Orbán’s Hungary: The Erosion of Reproductive Rights

    As part of our ongoing series connected to our Welcome to Gilead campaign, we explore Hungary’s population policies and the government’s push to increase native births amid growing concerns about…

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    Hungary: Demography is destiny

    We’re launching a new series revisiting our Welcome to Gilead campaign, exploring global restrictions on women’s reproductive rights. In this instalment, we revisit the chapter on Hungary’s demography from our 2021 Welcome to Gilead report.

  • Chief Executive’s New Year message

    As 2025 fast approaches, Population Matters’ Chief Executive, Amy Jankiewicz, reflects on an eventful and impactful year.

  • 2024 in review: Population Matters in the Media

    It’s been a busy year at Population Matters. Here we look at some of the articles and comment pieces featuring Population Matters in 2024.

  • Over £27,000 raised in End of Year appeal – Thank You!

    As we approach the end of the year, we would like to thank all our amazing supporters for their donations this year. All that we do is enabled through your generosity, which we value so much.

  • Dorcas at COP29

    Reflections on the UN Climate Change COP29 in BAKU

    Dorcas Wakio, Population Matters partner and Choice Ambassador, reflects on UN Climate Change COP29 (COP29) in Baku, advocating for gender equity, climate finance, and marginalised voices. Her work highlights the…

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    Beyond Growth – The Promise of a Wellbeing Economy

    In this guest blog, econometrician and sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington considers whether a transition to a Wellbeing Economy is possible and what that would mean for our society and how…

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    Worst Black Friday Deals for The Planet

    It’s Black Friday – when prices are slashed and hyper-consumerism goes into overdrive. But while other lists detail the best Black Friday deals on offer, here we examine the biggest environmental costs to the planet.

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    What are the criticisms of degrowth?

    We continue our series exploring alternative economic models. Here in the second part of our series on Degrowth, a model that calls for deliberately reducing energy and resource consumption within the economy, we examine the criticisms of degrowth.