Press Briefing on the eve of World Population Day

July 10, 2012, New Delhi

The National Coalition together in partnership with Mr AR Nanda (Chairperson of the Coalition), Population Foundation of India and The Hunger Project organized the Press Briefing in which different journalists and other civil society organizations were invited. 

This press briefing was aimed at ringing the alarms on current target based approach in family planning, monitoring achievements in terms of CPR, massive sterilizations conducted driven both by incentives and disincentives in different states and challenging the continuing myths related with population like ‘population explosion’.  

A Brief Report

List of Stories picked up in the media after the Press Briefing:

1. A Mandate that Spells coercion 
The Hindu, July 10, 2012 

2. Poor Women face Risk of Uninformed Tubectomies 
The Tribune, July 11, 2012  

3. More role for women in population policy: Experts 
The Indiavision, July 11, 2012

4. World Population day: Experts focus on Family Planning 
Press Trust of India, July 11, 2012

5. Approach to family planning needs to be reviewed: experts 
Press Trust of India, July 10, 2012 

6. Approach to family planning needs to be reviewed: experts 
Press Trust of India, Jul 10, 2012  

7. नारी के ही जिम्मे पररवार ननयोिन
Dainik Jagran, July 11, 2012 

8. More Role for Women in Population Policy 
Zee News, July 10, 2012
The Indian, July 10, 2012
Pluzmedia, July 10, 2012

9. World Population Day: call to end India's target-based approach to family planning 
Down to Earth, July 11, 2012