Andrew Mitchell
International Development Secretary
Andrew Mitchell is Britain's Secretary of State for International Development. He served as a UN peacekeeper in Cyprus in the 1970s, and went on to work and travel extensively in Africa and Asia. For the last three years, he has organised Project Umubano, a social action initiative focussing on a variety of development schemes in Rwanda. Click here to find out more about Andrew Mitchell.
It’s time to talk about population
Posted 31 October 2011
Population has become a dirty word. It is a word that many of my predecessors and counterparts have, some might say understandably, steered clear of for decades. That's because it is normally followed by words like 'control' and 'explosion'. It conjures images of forced euthanasia and sterilisation at one extreme or famine, poverty, disease and [...]
