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The Committee on Women, Population and the Environment is founded.

1991

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The Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE) is initially formed to prepare feminist analyses of population control and critique environmental issues for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

The committee is founded by feminist leaders of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, the Population and Development program, and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective. It will become: "a multi-racial alliance of feminist community organizers, scholarly activists, and health practitioners committed to promoting the social and economic empowerment of women in a context of global peace and justice; and to eliminating poverty" (Huntingdon College, n.d.).

CWPE publications include: Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development, and Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization.