Catholic Teaching on Population Issues by Bishop James T. McHugh (1991)

Catholic Teaching on Population Issues by Bishop James T. McHugh

Concern about population trends and policies is a prominent concern of the international community. The primary forum for consideration of these issues is the United Nations. Two U.N. agencies focus 
on population:

1. The U.N. Population Division, which conducts research and sponsors studies on interna­tional demographic issues and assists nations in carrying out censuses and local research 
2. The United Nations Fund for Population Activities which collects and dispenses funds to individual nations for family planning programs and re­search

The United Nations sponsored international conferences on population in 1974 and 1984 that drew international attention to what is often called "the population problem." Prior to the 1974 UN. World Population Conference in Bucharest, world population growth was often described in crisis terminology and usually accompanied by apocalyptic predictions about world food supplies, diminish­ing natural resources, and negative effects on social and economic development.

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