The congress recognising the world-wide population problem as a common concern of mankind and of continuing importance to humanist and ethical culturists, since without population planning welfare policies are futile and human dignity is disastrously imperilled, urges the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations to consider how best to provide that men and women everywhere shall have essential information on family planning, as their due and as due to the generation to be born.
IHEU congress 1952
'Family planning', Humanists International, World Humanist Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1952