Reality differs from these assumptions in ways that have important implications for population and development policy. A report from the European Population Conference, at which debate was dominated by immigration, falling fertility, aging, and, in the East, the lack of family planning services. It's time to retire some old myths about men, women, and migration, according to this year's State of World Population report.
Women make up nearly half of all international migrants, and three in four refugees.
In many parts of the world, they have long outnumbered men in moving from the countryside to cities. In the war between church and state over family planning in the Philippines, the side alternately trade salvoes in the media and sue for peace at the treaty table, making it difficult to predict the war's outcome. Regardless of who wins, the new national family planning programme will have an uphill struggle to succeed, documents show. Now, women, scientists, and family planning programmers are calling for a new generation of contraceptive methods that are safer and that women can control and use ot protect themselves against disease and unwanted pregnancies. In 1991, the programme seemed to be riding high.