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  • World Population Day: Revitalizing Discourse on Population, Development, and Rights

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 11, 2024  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard

    July 11 is World Population Day—designated annually by the United Nations as a focused opportunity to examine population trends and their implications for society. This year, World Population Day offers a chance to reflect on the 30th anniversary of one of the largest and arguably most influential world population conferences in history—the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

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  • World Population Day: Understanding Current Trends to Enhance Rights and Climate Resilience

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 11, 2023  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In today’s demographically diverse world, population issues abound, creating different and important social, economic, and political implications. World Population Day (observed each year on July 11) offers an opportunity to reflect on why population is so important. Understanding the implications of population growth and decline, as well as population age structure and migration—is essential to strengthen our abilities to plan for a more sustainable future.

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  • Intersecting Challenges Require Multisectoral Solutions: A Conversation with Charles Kabiswa

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 18, 2023  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    The impacts of a changing climate touch every region of the globe, but they are acutely felt by people in Uganda, where floods, droughts, and shifting rainfall patterns disrupt agricultural productivity, livelihoods, and the health and well-being of millions of people. According to the ND-GAIN index, Uganda is the 13th most vulnerable nation in the world, and action there is urgently needed to better prepare for and adapt to climate change’s impacts.

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  • Investing in Women and Girls is Central to Addressing Root Causes of Migration from Guatemala

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 1, 2022  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In recent years, a growing proportion of migrants at the US southern border have come from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. This surge of migrants from Central America has prompted the U.S. government to seek to better understand and address the root causes of migration from the region. One substantive response came in July 2021, under Executive Order 14010, when the Biden-Harris Administration released what has become known as the Root Causes Strategy. The White House pledged to commit $4 billion over four years on efforts to address drivers of irregular migration from these three countries.

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  • World Population Day Shines a Spotlight on Inequities

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    Guest Contributor  //  July 11, 2022  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard

    July 11 is World Population Day—a day designated annually by the United Nations that should prompt us, in the words of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, to “focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues.”

    Examining population trends helps describe where we’ve been and suggests where we’re headed. Yet these facts about human existence on our planet also offer insights into how we got here—including a window into places where inequities exist and rights have been denied.

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  • Want to Ward Off the Apocalypse? Invest in Women’s Health and Rights

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 27, 2019  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard & Robert Engelman
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    This article by Kathleen Mogelgaard and Robert Engelman originally appeared on Thomson Reuters Foundation News.

    World population continues to grow. The latest UN projections, released this week, indicate that we will add another 2 billion people to the planet by 2050 and 3 billion by the end of the century.  While population growth is ebbing in many countries—and even starting to contract in a few—population growth in some countries remains brisk, if not breakneck. 

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  • A Firm Foundation: Contraception, Agency, and Women’s Economic Empowerment

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  July 10, 2018  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard

    According to a raft of experts, empowering women to be economic actors would change quite a bit. The UN Secretary General set up a High-Level Panel on it; Melinda Gates keeps talking about it; and the World Bank and Ivanka Trump recently launched an initiative to unlock billions in financing for it. Targets related to women’s economic empowerment cut across multiple Sustainable Development Goals, including advancing equal rights to economic resources, doubling the agricultural productivity and incomes of women who are small-scale farmers, and achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all women.

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  • Preparing the Next National Climate Assessment: An Opportunity to Engage

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    From the Wilson Center  //  October 19, 2016  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard
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    In 1990, the U.S. Congress passed the Global Change Research Act “to assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.” Under this mandate, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was born, an innovative, cross-cutting research initiative that brings together the science arms of 13 federal agencies working on global change issues, including the Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Energy, Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and others.

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