President Trump reinstates ‘Global Gag Rule’
27 January 2017

Family planning services worldwide received a blow when President Trump reinstated the 'Global Gag Rule', which withdraws US foreign aid from any organisation which provides abortion or information about it. The decision will withdraw funding worth billions of dollars from health programmes currently reliant on US aid.
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18 million Chinese babies since end of one child policy
24 January 2017

Meet our new chief executive
20 January 2017

MPs vote against universal sex education in UK schools
13 January 2017

Chris Packham speaks out on impact of population
11 January 2017 COMMENT TV naturalist and Population Matters patron Chris Packham has published an opinion piece in The Times, describing the impact of population growth on the natural world and outlining the simple solutions available to fix it. Read it in full here. read more...
PM research shows traffic congestion costs to soar
9 January 2017 ARTICLE The Times has published an exclusive story based on original research by Population Matters showing that road and rail congestion could cost England an extra £9bn per year by 2030 - an increase of nearly 60% over the cost today. read more...