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Focus on Children:
Universal Children's Day
20 November 2008

The Population Council has a long history of working on issues faced by children in the developing world. We address child marriage, safe spaces for girls, schooling, livelihoods, and children affected or orphaned by HIV and AIDS.

Young girls in Vietnam.

Photo: B. Teerawichitchainan/Population Council

For more information on Population Council research and programs on young people, follow the links below to information on some recent projects:

Annual Report 2007

Population and Development Review, September

Population and Development Review supplement: Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth (more) (contents)

Studies in Family Planning, September

Momentum, September • Population Briefs, August

Report: "Study of sexually transmitted infections among urban men in Pakistan: Identifying the bridging population" (PDF)

Poverty, Gender, and Youth Working Paper:
"Marriage considerations in sending girls to school in Bangladesh: Some qualitative evidence" (abstract) (PDF)

Briefs: Promoting Healthy, Safe, and Productive Transitions to Adulthood (more)

The Population Council mourns the unexpected death of Terri Bartlett, who worked tirelessly to improve and safeguard the health and rights of women and their families throughout the world. (offsite link)

Nominations for the 2009 Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Award for excellence in writing and editing in the population sciences will be accepted until 1 March 2009. (more)

The Population Council mourns the death of Dr. Allan Rosenfield. (more)

Planned Parenthood Federation of America has honored distinguished Council reproductive health scientist Irving Sivin. (more)

The Population Council and Council Distinguished Scholar Sheldon J. Segal have been awarded the 2008 Prix Galien USA Pro Bono Humanum Award. (more) Segal also recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Family Planning (more)

Population Council Trustee Wafaa El-Sadr has been awarded a $500,000 genius grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. (offsite link)