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1927: The World Population Conference is held in Geneva, leading to the formation of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). 1928: Milbank Memorial Fund begins studies in population in New York City. 1929: Guy Burch founds the Population Reference Bureau in New York City.
International Conference on Population and Development, 5–13 September 1994, Cairo, Egypt; the third International Conference on Population under the auspices of the UN, attended by 179 governmental delegations from UN member states, seven observers at governmental level, the European Union, and several hundred NGOs.
Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology (COMELA) Days of Swiss Linguistics (DSL) Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) International Conference on Sociolinguistics ("ICS") 4th International ESP Conference, Nis, Serbia [1] Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender Conference, (LILG) [2]
In 1964, Laslett and Tony Wrigley co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. With funding from the Social Science Research Council, the Cambridge Group worked alongside amateur volunteers on local records, and established the journal Local Population Studies. [3]
Steven Ruggles (born May 8, 1955) is Regents Professor of History and Population Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the director of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation. [1] He is best known as the creator of IPUMS , the world's largest population database.
The federation was created in 1919 to represent the United States in the Union Académique Internationale (International Union of Academies). The founders of ACLS, representatives of 13 learned societies, believed that a federation of scholarly organizations (dedicated to excellence in research, and most with open membership) was the best combination of U.S. democracy and intellectual aspirations.
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Population Action International (PAI) is an international, civil society organization that uses research and advocacy to improve global access to family planning and reproductive health care. Its mission is to "advance universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights through advocacy, partnerships and the funding of changemakers".