World Population Conference
The first ever World Population Conference was held at the Salle Centrale, Geneva, Switzerland, from 29 August to 3 September 1927. Organized by the forerunner of the United Nations, the League of Nations, and Margaret Sanger; the conference was an attempt to bring together international experts on population, food supply, fertility, migration and health to discuss the problem of human overpopulation. The conference was organized with funds donated by Sanger's husband, J. Noah Slee, as well as a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.[1] Sir. Bernard Mallet presided over the meeting, and William H. Welch was vice-president.
The conference was attended by delegates from all over the world, promoted the study of human population and led to the establishment of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
Since the United Nations officially came into existence in 1945, five subsequent conferences on population have been held.[2]
Event
The conference was truly international, with one hundred and twenty-three delegates from
Results
The World Population Conference succeeded in drawing attention to the study of population growth and established the
Margaret Sanger's role
Subsequent World Population Conferences
The first World Population Conference sponsored by the
References
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- ^ "United Nations Population Division | Department of Economic and Social Affairs". www.un.org. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
- ^ Sanger, Margaret (1927). Proceedings of the World Population Conference. London: Edward Arnold & Co. pp. 363–68.
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- ^ "Margaret Sanger | Biography, Birth Control, & Significance". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
- ^ Margaret Sanger Papers Project (Spring 1994). "From Geneva to Cairo: Margaret Sanger and the First World Population Conference". Margaret Sanger Papers Project Newsletter. Retrieved 2013-04-26.