Population Research Institute is an international non-profit which works to end coercive population control, and fight the myth of overpopulation which fuels it.
39 years ago today, Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, received the power to rule by decree from the Indian president. She immediately declared a state of emergency, suspending numerous civil liberties. This freed her government to forcibly sterilize millions of Indian men and women in the 21 months that followed.
Read more...PRI sends research teams to countries around the globe to investigate human rights abuses connected to population control. Our body of research is available in full.
What we're doing to stop population control abuses, both here and around the globe.