Ahram Online “China committed genocide in the Xinjiang region by preventing births in the Uyghur population”, a London panel investigating alleged human rights abuses concluded on Thursday. The tribunal was set up at the request of the ‘World Uyghur Congress’, the largest group representing exiled Uyghurs which lobbies the international …
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Egypt Independent “The population of Egypt has reached 102,526,000, an increase of 26,000 during the past two days”, the advisor to the head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS), Hussein Abdel-Aziz, told MBC Masr on Tuesday. “The average marriage age in rural areas is 20 years, …
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Egypt Independent Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali stated on Sunday that rising birth rates increased Egypt’s population growth rate to 2.65 percent in 2018, which would negatively impact development outcomes. In a meeting with members of the central committee for the ‘Atenien Kefaya’ (Only Two Kids) campaign, Wali …
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Egypt Independent A child is born every 15 seconds in Egypt, and the number of population increases by two million annually – which is equal to the population of a whole state – according to Amr Hassan, Rapporteur of the Population Council. Hassan stressed the importance of state efforts …
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With population growth perceived as a threat to the country’s development, could policies to curb birth rates in Egypt make real headway, asks Gihan Shahine Gihan Shahine – Al-Ahram Weekly “I never wanted to have four children. I had planned for only two,” said 39-year-old Shaimaa in a frustrated tone. Not …
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