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THE SPEAK OUT

AGENDA

The campaign is geared at driving continuous public

discourse, campaigning and activism on the population

and related issues, working towards key objectives:

• Robust political support for vastly increased international
  family planning financing and aid


• Universal primary and secondary school education


• Improving the status of women and girls around the world


• Financial support for Population, Health, and Environment
  (PHE) programmes, which improve access to health services
  
  
  • including family planning and reproductive health – while
    also helping people improve livelihoods, manage natural
    resources, and conserve the critical ecosystems on which
    they and every other species depend
  
  
  
  


• Financial support for entertainment-education and
  behaviour change communications initiatives to promote
  the use of family planning

Visit http://www.populationspeakout.org

And yet, in many parts of the developed world, we are
consuming wantonly and unsustainably. A minority of our
population is consuming far beyond their basic needs, while
the majority scramble to survive on the bare minimum.
Cue the Global Population Speak Out campaign, an
online, crowd-directed effort to jump-start the conversation
about overpopulation, approaching the problem from
an optimistic viewpoint, with the conviction that global
population stabilisation can be achieved by realising a
progressive human rights agenda. The NGO sponsors of the
Speak Out project are the US-based Population Institute and
Population Media Center. The former educates policymakers

Increasing demand for

biofuels is linked to

increased deforestation as

native habitat is converted

to palm oil production

and the public about population, and seeks to promote

universal access to family planning information, education,

and services. The latter is a non-profit leader in entertainment-

education dedicated to women’s rights and empowerment,

population stabilisation, and the environment.

Speak Out’s goal is to equip young learners, professional

activists and citizens with tools to help spread environmental

and social-change messages. The campaign rallies volunteers

from all over the world to work in their communities to raise

awareness on the importance of stabilising human numbers.

Since 2008, the campaign has had participants from virtually

every country on Earth.

IMAGE © YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND COURTESY OF OVER/SPEAK OUT

status of

women

population,

health &

environment

family education edutainment

planning