Asia

UNFPA Whitewashes Forced Abortion in China

December 17, 2001 Volume 3/ Number 33 UNFPA’s Executive Director, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, has sent a letter to US Secretary of State Colin Powell and to Members of Congress attacking PRI’s investigation in China. Attached to the letter is a report on UNFPA’s own subsequent

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From the Countries

Asian Sex Selection a Problem Sex-selective abortion continues to be a problem in many Asian countries, where sons are traditionally preferred to daughters. Two countries are trying to do something to stop unborn baby girls from being targeted for abortions based solely on their sex.

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The Philippines: A Report from the Front Lines

Anti-life forces are steadily gaining ground in the Philippines. Despite a constitutional provision mandating the protection of the unborn from the moment of conception, population control programs utilizing methodologies that clearly violate this constitutional provision are widely implemented. And with the enactment of the Local

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UNFPA Whitewash: Forced Abortion in China

Population Research Institute (PRI) has obtained a copy of a letter sent from the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, to the US Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell. The letter, dated 19 November 2001, falsely claims that information

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China’s One-Child Policy

I have been a student of China’s one-child policy since the late 1970s, when I became the first American social scientist to conduct a full-length study of a Chinese village. From 1979 to 1980, I lived in rural Guangdong. At the beginning of 1980, the

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China’s Population Policy

I am honored to testify here again on the Planned Birth Policy in the People’s Republic of China. In 1998, I testified alongside other crucial witnesses on this same issue before this very committee. Unfortunately, the Planned Birth Policy is still carried out as the

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From the Countries

Asian Sex Selection a Problem Sex-selective abortion continues to be a problem in many Asian countries, where sons are traditionally preferred to daughters. Two countries

Read More »

China’s One-Child Policy

I have been a student of China’s one-child policy since the late 1970s, when I became the first American social scientist to conduct a full-length

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China’s Population Policy

I am honored to testify here again on the Planned Birth Policy in the People’s Republic of China. In 1998, I testified alongside other crucial

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