Population Research Institute

The Population Research Institute (PRI) was founded in 1989. According to the organization's web site, the "Population Research Institute is a non-profit research and educational organization dedicated to objectively presenting the truth about population-related issues."

Mission


 * "To document abuses of human rights in the name of population control, which have occurred in China, Bangladesh, and dozens of other countries around the world, and work for their elimination.
 * "To make a case against the widely held, but fundamentally wrongheaded, development paradigm which places economic and population growth in opposition to each other.
 * "To articulate the material and social benefits of moderate population growth and promote economic development through models which respect the dignity and rights of the individual human person and the family."

Leadership

 * Steven W. Mosher, President


 * "Steve Mosher was named President of the Population Research Institute (PRI) in 1996 by Father Paul Marx, O.S.B., Ph. D., who founded the organization in 1989."

"Under Steve's leadership, PRI has . ..


 * "Documented illegal use of U.S. tax dollars by the United Nations Population Fund/United Nations Population Fund to help bankroll China's one-child-per-family law - documentation that helped give President George Herbert Walker Bush and pro-life legislators the facts they needed to strip the U.N. Population Fund of $34 million of annual U.S. funding
 * "Proved that the International Planned Parenthood Federation was illegally using U.S. funds for abortion, an investigation that helped deny $192 million in U.S. funds to that pro-abortion organization.
 * "And now, under Steve Mosher's direction, PRI is investigating the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), seeking to prove that AID is illegally using U.S. funds to coerce women into 'accepting' sterilization."

Contact
Population Research Institute 1190 Progress Drive, Suite 2D P.O. Box 1559 Front Royal, VA 22630 Phone: (540) 622-5240 Fax:     (540) 622-2728 Email:   pri AT pop.org Web:    www.pop.org

Related Sourcewatch

 * Christopher Manion