World Population Day
11th July is observed as World Population
Day – a day on which the international community works together to raise
awareness about important issue like population explosion. World population day is an international level
awareness campaign being celebrated all over the world to call people on one stage
to know the reason of exploding population year by year. Through this great
awareness celebration, people are encouraged to take part in the event and to
know about population issues like importance of family planning, gender equality,
maternal and baby health, poverty, human rights, right to health etc. The
awareness programme is started with activities like seminar discussions, educational
information sessions, essay writing competition, public contests on
various topics, poster distribution, speeches, slogans, themes and messages
distribution, workshops, lectures, news
distribution through press conferences,
news channels, relay of population related programmes etc. Growing population is a cause of major
concern because a world which is getting continuously crowded will have great
repercussion on natural resources which sustain all living organisms. There is severe need to
check this explosion and observance of World Population Day is just a step in
this direction. The observance of this day is a ray of light towards the growth
and development in the current time of ever growing population. The day has
been celebrated every year since 1989, year of its announcement. Every year the
celebration of World Population Day is based on a particular theme, decided by
the United Nations.
The theme of
2015 is “Vulnerable Populations in Emergencies”.
