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October 30, 2019
Social Norms in Zambia: Up Against Some of the Fiercest Competition
October 30, 2019 —Since our founding, Population Media Center has understood the importance of social norms for a sustainable future. In fact, our Theory of Change is built around Albert Bandura’s Social Learning...

October 1, 2019
#ClimateStrikes: A Movement Against Collapse that Calls Out All of Us
October 1, 2019 —Greta Thunberg doesn’t want to lead this movement. She doesn’t want to be the leader of the climate change crusaders. She doesn’t want to be the tip of the spear. She doesn’t want to be a hero. She...

September 17, 2019
Reflections on Thomas Malthus
September 17, 2019 —Amongst economists it’s currently fashionable to downgrade Thomas Malthus.

August 26, 2019
The Forgotten Women of the Suffrage Movement
August 26, 2019 —The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was certified on August 26, 1920. This amendment states that the right of U.S. citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. It was...

August 19, 2019
PMC-Nepal’s Resident Representative Answers Questions on Child Marriage, Girls’ Education
August 19, 2019 —In June, The New York Times released an article broadly examining child marriage in Nepal. To gather information, reporters Bhadra Sharma and Kai Schultz interviewed children who had been recently...

July 1, 2019
World Population Day 2019 - The Pros and Cons of the Cairo Consensus
July 1, 2019 —The Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, colloquially known as the Cairo Consensus, was adopted in 1994. The lengthy document still serves as the...

June 12, 2019
Don't Walk That Plank: Managing Catastrophic Risk
June 12, 2019 —A new situational analysis of humanity’s climate predicament, published by a think-tank in Australia (Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration), has drawn criticism from some fellow...

May 7, 2019
Putting Audiences at the Center of All We Do
May 7, 2019 —The roots of Population Media Center’s program design stretch back 50 years. It was in the early 1970’s that Miguel Sabido, VP for Research at the Televisa network in Mexico, concluded that...

April 18, 2019
Earth Day: Inherently Revolutionary
April 18, 2019 —For many environmentalists, there are few things that provoke a deeper sense of cynicism than Earth Day itself. During the modern environmental movement’s “formative years” – basically the 1970's –...

April 15, 2019
Kasamba's Story, PMC-Zambia writer
April 15, 2019 —In 1981, a little girl joined the Syakantu family tree in a small town in the Southern part of Zambia. Kasamba was the last born in a family of six. For as long as she can remember, everyone called...