Population Day
World population day is an international level
awareness campaign being celebrated all over the world to call people on
stage to know the reason of this exploding population year by year as
well as solve the big mistake of whole human fraternity. This great
awareness event is to bring a population revolution globally as well as
breaking sleep of all the deeply slept people to pay their full
attention and help in combating this population issue.
World Population Day 2017
World Population Day 2017 will be celebrated all over the world by the people on 11th of July at Tuesday.
World Population Day History
World Population Day is a great event being celebrated all through the world annually on 11th
of July. It is celebrated to increase the awareness of the people
towards the worldwide population issues. It was first started in the
year 1989 by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP). It was exalted by the interest of the public when the
global population became near about five billion at 11th of July in the year 1987.
The following message “Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services” was distributed worldwide by the theme of 2012th
World Population Day celebration when the worldwide population was
approximately 7,025,071,966. The big step was taken by the authority for
more small and healthy society as well as sustainable future of the
people. A crucial investment is made to fulfill the reproductive health
care demands and supply. The step was taken for increasing the
reproductive health as well as reducing the social poverty by reducing
the population.
It was the huge challenge for the development when
the population on the earth has reached to around 7 billion in the year
2011. According to the decisions of the Governing Council of the United
Nations Development Programme in the year 1989, it was recommended that
11th of July every year should be noticed by the community
globally and celebrated as the World Population Day in order to raise
the awareness among common public and find out the real solutions to
combat with the population issues. It was started to focus the required
attention of people towards the importance of population issues.
Why World Population Day is celebrated
The
aim of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development
Programme is paying great attention towards the reproductive health
problems of the community people as it is the leading cause of the ill
health as well as the death of the pregnant women worldwide. It has been
distinguished that around 800 women are dying daily in the procedure of
giving birth to a baby. The campaign of the World Population Day every
year increases the knowledge and skills of the people worldwide towards
their reproductive health and family planning.
Around 1.8 billion
youngsters are entering to their reproductive years and it’s very
necessary to call their attention towards the primary part of the
reproductive health. According to the statistics, it is noted that the
world population on 1st of January 2014 has been reached to
7,137,661,030. The annual celebration of world population day is planned
with lots of activities and events to make aware people about the
reality.
Through this great awareness celebration, people are
encouraged to take part in the event to know about population issues
like importance of family planning towards the increasing population,
gender equality, maternal and baby health, poverty, human rights, right
to health, sexuality education, use of contraceptives and safety
measures like condoms, reproductive health, adolescent pregnancy, girl
child education, child marriage, sexually transmitted infections and so
many.
Sexuality related issues are very necessary to get solved
among youths especially between 15 to 19 years of age as according to
the statistics it is noted that around 15 million women of this age give
birth every year as well as around 4 million go through for abortion. Some of the objectives of celebrating the world population day are mentioned below:
- It is celebrated to protect and empower youths of both gender like girls and boys.
- To offer them detail knowledge about the sexuality and delay marriages till they become able to understand their responsibilities.
- Educate youths to avoid unwanted pregnancies by using reasonable and youth friendly measures.
- Educate people to remove the gender stereotypes from society.
- Educate them about the pregnancy related illnesses to raise the public awareness about dangers of early childbirth.
- Educate them about STD (sexually transmitted diseases) to get prevented from various infections.
- Demand for some effective laws and policies implementation in order to protect girl child rights.
- Make sure about the access of equal primary education to both girls and boys.
- Make sure the easy access of reproductive health services everywhere as part the basic primary health for each couple.
How World Population Day is celebrated
World
population day is celebrated on international level by organizing
variety of activities and events to draw attention of mass people to
work together on the issues of growing population. Some of the
activities include seminar discussions, educational competitions,
educational information sessions, essay writing competition, public
contests on various topics, poster distribution, songs, sports activity,
speeches, poems, artwork, slogans, themes and messages distribution,
workshops, lectures, debates, round table discussions, news distribution
through press conferences, TV channels and news channels, relay of
population related programmes on radio and television and so many.
Various health organizations and population divisions works together to
solve population issues by organizing conferences, research works,
meetings, project analysis and etc.
