UK aid helps to fund forced sterilisation of India's poor

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UK aid helps to fund forced sterilisation of India's poor

Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian women and men, the Observer has learned. Many have died as a result of botched operations, while others have been left bleeding and in agony. A number of pregnant women selected for sterilisation suffered miscarriages and lost their babies.

The UK agreed to give India £166m to fund the programme, despite allegations that the money would be used to sterilise the poor in an attempt to curb the country's burgeoning population of 1.2 billion people.

Sterilisation has been mired in controversy for years. With officials and doctors paid a bonus for every operation, poor and little-educated men and women in rural areas are routinely rounded up and sterilised without having a chance to object. Activists say some are told they are going to health camps for operations that will improve their general wellbeing and only discover the truth after going under the knife.

Hurray for climate change activism.

Despite the controversy, an Indian government report shows that sterilisation remains the most common method of family planning used in its Reproductive and Child Health Programme Phase II, launched in 2005 with £166m of UK funding. According to the DfID, the UK is committed to the project until next year and has spent £34m in 2011-12. Most of the money – £162m – has been paid out, but no special conditions have been placed on the funding.

Funding varies from state to state, but in Bihar private clinics receive 1,500 rupees for every sterilisation, with a bonus of 500 rupees a patient if they carry out more than 30 operations on a particular day. NGO workers who convince people to have the operations receive 150 rupees a person, while doctors get 75 rupees for each patient.

A 2009 Indian government report said that nearly half a million sterilisations had been carried out the previous year but warned of problems with quality control and financial management.

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What does that have to do with the article?

[greenday]

The money is being misused its not like the UK is funding it lakiin why are they doing it without their consent

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Its India and its has to do with reproduction.

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The money is being misused its not like the UK is funding it lakiin why are they doing it without their consent

This is central to climate change mitigation, and occurs in many countries. It's generally funded by NGOs and overarching political organizations, and carried out by local governments.

Its India and its has to do with reproduction.

What?

That video relates in no way to this article.

[greenday]

And since when did smaller population become the solution to climate change

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And since when did smaller population become the solution to climate change

"Family planning" and generally smaller populations are central themes in environmentalism that are suggested to combat decreasing resources and increasing waste.

A smaller carbon footprint, as they say.

[greenday]

But Alpha these people dont have carbon footprint The problem is not the people with places like China and India, they just happen to be industrial countries with looots of factories, they should focus on that

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But Alpha these people dont have carbon footprint The problem is not the people with places like China and India, they just happen to be industrial countries with looots of factories, they should focus on that

It's the developing world that is targeted most and hardest. Places with poor institutions and an undereducated population that cannot distinguish between aid and assault are easiest to manipulate and manage. When it comes to immediate reduction in population, they're first.

What should they focus on? And who are they?

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Climate change people should be investing in clean production of goods, and the consumption of the first world.The cars made are not being used by India's population, its funny because we recycle and they tell use to be environmental but if others are not doing the same it wont make any difference its not like we have different Ozone to them.

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Climate change people should be investing in clean production of goods, and the consumption of the first world.The cars made are not being used by India's population, its funny because we recycle and they tell use to be environmental but if others are not doing the same it wont make any difference its not like we have different Ozone to them.

I don't understand exactly what it is you're trying to say.

When it comes to number of cars produced annually, the ranking as of 2010 is China, Japan, Germany, Korea, Brazil, India, and then the US.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ind_c ... production

"First world" is no longer an applicable term, I think. When it comes to the developing nations, they are targeted just as heavily as any other nation when it comes to industrial production. It's proposed that production levels should be in ratio to the needs of the countries.

All that (and whatever else you're to say) aside, climate change mitigation shouldn't exist.

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Alpha what am saying is these developing countries and countries in general need to be producing so meet demand, i just suggest that more effort is put in to looking for technology that reduces emission from production.


Do you think there is climate change?

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Alpha what am saying is these developing countries and countries in general need to be producing so meet demand, i just suggest that more effort is put in to looking for technology that reduces emission from production.

I agree.
But new techs have been around for decades. New energies are plenty enough to meet demand, if adequately used.

Do you think there is climate change?

It exists. There's just nothing we can do about it, nor have we caused it.

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Alpha we might not have cause it but we gave it a push Technology has been around sure but remember the longer something is around the cheaper it becomes Have you seen Qarars plans for their green city and how they will keep people cool during the world cup