"We also have issues related and similar to non-use of contraceptives, " he said. It seeks to focus attention on the insistence and importance of population issues. We hope that the findings of the Economic Impacts of Child Marriage study will help convince policymakers and donors-including those at tomorrow's summit in London-that investing in ending child marriage and, more generally, empowering women is not only the right thing to do, but also a smart investment for growth and development.
The director stated that this year's World Population Day with the theme: "Family Planning, Birth Spacing: Empowering People, Developing Nations" is targeted at using family planning to ensure quality population in the country. "At the individual level, they make lives better".
More than half of the commitments counted so far will come from governments in Asia and Africa, with India committed to spending an additional $1 billion by 2020, while Bangladesh said it will increase its family planning funding by almost 70 percent to $615 million until 2021, according to Devex. "In the aggregate, they transform economies and enable countries to become more self-sufficient".
Experts say that poor family planning habits have ballooned the country's population to 191.89 million, making it the country with the seventh highest number of people in the world. This underscores the possibilities of leveraging human rights instruments to address the exigencies of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights sector in the developing world, starting with recognizing the critical link between reproductive rights and women's empowerment.
Access to family planning had economic dividends for families aside the reduction in fertility, she said, adding that "deliveries should not be too soon, too many, too frequent and too close".
"The term "family planning" goes beyond contraception by taking into account sexuality education, planning your child's birth for specific times and planning for a child when you have challenges conceiving one".
But now we have a leader who never had qualms about bucking the Catholic Church when it comes to poverty alleviation and ensuring that women have access to reproductive health services.
This year's commemoration coincided with Family Planning Summit, the second meeting of FP2020-Family Planning 2020-initiative, which aims to expand access to voluntary family planning to 120 million additional women by 2020.
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The Kolkata police had also lodged an FIR against a BJP spokesperson in Delhi earlier this week. Sengupta was produced in a Suri court where the CID sought ten days remand of Sengupta.
At the Summit, more than 60 governments and partners pledged commitments of at least $2.5 billion United States dollars by 2020, with the majority of the funding ($1.5 billion USD) committed by countries in Asia and Africa. The government will increase the number of health facilities providing family planning services in each of its states and federal territory to 20,000 and leverage its 10,000 functional primary health care facilities to raise awareness about family planning.
The ministry reaffirmed its commitment to further step up efforts in family planning.
Most of these women with an unmet demand for contraceptives live in 69 of the poorest countries on earth.
She said family planning was also the key to achieving other goals, such as ending hunger, promoting good health and gender equality.
"We've seen women marching to defend the rights of women to be able to control our bodies and our reproductive health", she said.
"This is for reasons ranging from lack of access to information or services to lack of support from their partners or communities".
In short more people mean more food, more jobs and jobs securities, more energy and social services and other necessities of life, which a country like Pakistan seems fail to provide.
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