Money from the Department for International Development has helped pay for a controversial programme that has led to miscarriages and even deaths after botched operations
UK Climate Policy Helps 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. The Department for International Development in 2010 cited the need to fight climate change as one of the key reasons for pressing ahead with such programmes. The document argued that reducing population numbers would cut greenhouse gases, although it warned that there were "complex human rights and ethical issues" involved in forced population control. --Gethin Chamberlain, The Observer, 15 April 2012
