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Population Control as a Human Right

By Roman Birke

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Population Control as a Human Right

By Roman Birke

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Concerns about global overpopulation spread rapidly in the 1940s and still persist today. The UN Resolution on Human Rights and Family Planning (1968) provided justifications for the argument that population growth endangered the realization of human rights and codified a right to contraception to halt this growth. Conversely, human rights were also invoked on the other side of this debate, with family planning regarded as an essential individual right independent of demographic considerations. Roman Birke explores how human rights became central to this debate, utilised by international actors including NGOs, the women's movement, international lawyers, and institutions such as the United Nations. He analyses how couples' intimate choices related to domestic and international policy, and how this varied across the world, through case studies of India, Ireland, the USA, and Yugoslavia. This is an essential contribution to the evolving literature on the role of reproductive politics in global political landscapes.
Product details
Number of Pages:
234
Release Date:
2025-10-31
Publication Date:
2025-09-17
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009601164
ISBN13:
9781009601160
Weight:
496 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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