Question: What is the theme of World Population Day 2018?
(a) Family Planning is a Human Right
(b) Unsafe food arrangements
(c) Family planning: empowering people, developing nations
(d) Unprotected population in emergency
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:
- On July 11, 2018, ‘World Population Day’ was celebrated throughout the world.
- The theme of World Population Day 2018 is ‘“Family Planning is a Human Right”.
- This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 International Conference on Human Rights, where family planning was, for the first time, globally affirmed to be a human right.
- Nine standards to uphold the human right to family planning are: Non-discrimination, Available, Accessible, Acceptable, Good quality, Informed decision-making, Privacy and confidentiality, Participation and Accountability.
- In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that 11 July be observed by the international community as World Population Day.
Reference:
http://www.un.org/en/events/populationday/index.shtml
https://www.unfpa.org/events/world-population-day