A new report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) warns that government policies aimed at raising, lowering or maintaining fertility rates can erode reproductive and human rights and says the goal should be to advance gender equality and the quality of life.
“There is a serious danger that rights will be undermined,” Natalia Kanem, the UNFPA’s executive director, told reporters last week in New York during a press briefing on the report, which was released on Wednesday. “That is already happening in some places.”
As the world’s population hits eight billion, the 2023 UNFPA State of World Population report says human reproduction is
