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Women drive global birth-rate drop at Cairo conference
The Cairo conference on population highlights women as the linchpin of birth-rate reduction through education, employment, and contraception. Vatican opposition to abortion and clergy rhetoric clash with rising female autonomy in countries like Egypt and Brazil, where contraception uptake rises and birth rates fall.
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Tim Wirth
Global Affairs
Cairo
Wirth
Vatican
Egypt
Brazil
Alan Guttmacher Institute
sub-Saharan Africa
Libya
Iran
U.S