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The Battle for Right to Food in India
A written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status 1. Set to overtake China as the world’s most populous nation by 2030, India has a population of over 1.2 billion and is facing an enormous food shortage crisis. Government corruption has rendered it impossible to institute […]
History of Population Control in India
With a current population of 1.21 billion, India is set to become the world’s most populous country by 2030, and there are no other countries likely to ever rival this status. Since 1931, India has nearly quadrupled in size from 279 million people to well over a billion and currently represents 15% of the world’s […]
Population Policy in China
Infamously known as the One-Child policy, China has probably the world’s best known population control strategy. Prior to the Great Leap Forward, China’s communist government initiated laws banning birth control, sterilization, and abortion. In 1949, the new government of the People’s Republic of China believed that growing population would bring economic prosperity. Mao Zedong was pro-natalist, […]
Population Control in India – Coercive Sterilization
Unlike China and its’ One Child Only Policy, India has yet to find an effective means of population control. Estimates in July of 2012 indicate that India has a population of over 1.22 billion people. Millennium Development Goals for India set by the UN in 2000 cover issues such as poverty, slums, and water availability, […]
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