Title: Law, human rights, and population policy.

POPLINE Document Number: 231646

Author(s):

Lee LT

Source citation:

In: Population policy: contemporary issues, edited by Godfrey Roberts. New York, New York/London, England, Praeger, 1990. :1-20.

Abstract:

The author reviews the objectives and impact of the Law and Population Program, which was administered from 1970 to 1978 by Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, and was established in order to relate law and human rights to population and family planning. "The lapse of more than ten years since the closing of the Law and Population Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy affords an opportunity to place the program and its activities in perspective. Have the theoretical assumptions and bases underlying the program been justified? What impact, if any, have its activities had on population policies around the world? What lessons may be drawn for the future? These are questions which the present chapter seeks to address." (EXCERPT)

Keywords:

Global
Human Rights
Population
Family Planning
Population Theory
Demographic Impact
Population Law
Population Policy
Legislation
Demography
Social Sciences
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Social Policy
Policy