Abstract
The UN Population Award established in 1981 and presented annually for contribution to awareness of population questions or to their solutions was given in 1995 to an individual Halfdan Mahler of Denmark and an institution Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting Health of Women and Children. In his acceptance remarks at award ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York on 5 June 1995 Dr. Mahler who between 1973 and 1988 served as director-general of WHO (World Health Organization) and since 1989 has been secretary general of International Planned Parenthood Federation discussed goal for women to control their own reproductive lives and conditions that would assure its realization. Stating that tens of millions of unwanted children [are] born in just one year and that several hundred million couples and individuals on Earth would like to regulate their fertility but cannot because they lack proper access to family planning information and modern contraceptive methods Mahler identified opposition to family planning as the politicized creations of men supported by anti-women ideology parading in robes of `religion and `morality. (authors)
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