Asia

PRI Holds Conference on Human Rights in China

To look at her, it is hard to believe the trials Catherine Ho has faced. The petite woman radiates with the grace that only a truly devout believer possesses. Persecution of Catholics Ho was born in Shanghai, China, in 1935. Her parents sent her to

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Bush vs. Bangkok: Abortion as ‘Reproductive Health’

The U.N. Population Fund’s conferences are generally carefully choreographed. But the run-up to the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference, held in Bangkok in December, was unusually ragged. The UNFPA received its first shock even before the conference began. The Bush administration, acting on the

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U.S. Delegation to China: Another Whitewash in the Making

May 8, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 11 Dear Colleague: As a State Department delegation prepares to go to China to investigate UNFPA’s involvement in China’s coercive one-child policy, all those opposed to forced abortion need to let President Bush know: Enough whitewashes! Zero for UNFPA!

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Coercive Population Ploys in the Philippines

Over 20 years ago in November 1981, I was appointed Chief Executive Office of the Commission on Population — the Philippine Government’s prime mover of what it unabashedly but accurately called the national population control program. We then waged an all-fronts propaganda campaign, under severe

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