PRI Staff The long-standing neglect and outright hostility often directed towards young girls in some Asian countries, appears to have become increasingly common in recent years as women opt for smaller families, according to new studies reported at the annual meeting of the Population Association
The medical histories of the dead children of the Shanghai Children’s Welfare Institute, China’s showcase orphanage, read like macabre experiments in human starvation: Ke Yue, a girl, was admitted to the orphanage in November 1989, the month of her birth. Two and a half years
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” 1 On 6 June 1993, off the New York City
The goal of radical feminists to create a new “gender sensitive” world order took a great leap forward at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing on 4-l5 September. The new order envisioned by the feminist extremists who controlled the agenda would be
Shave, haircut condom, vasectomy …? The Dominican Republic Family Planning Association (Adoplafam), in cooperation with the U.N. Population Fund, began a project in 1991 to increase men’s awareness of responsible fatherhood and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. Adoplafam trained 140 barbers to serve as resource
The United Nations says it chose China as the site of the Fourth World Conference on Women because it was Asia’s turn to host the conference and, supposedly, China was the only Asian nation to apply. Clearly, China was not chosen for its world’s worst
Although US State Department officials say they’re against coercive population control in China, they have led the effort to deny U.S. asylum to Chinese who say they fled forced abortion and sterilization. Diplomats apparently have won their fight within the-Clinton Administration, but they could still
The Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW), to be held in Beijing 30 August to 16 September, has been in the making since 1990. At that time, the U.N. Economic and Social Council called for a world women’s conference in 1995, requesting further that the
India acts to save girl babies: The Indian Parliament has acted to prevent doctors from telling parents the sex of their expected children. The high bride price for girls at marriage partially motivates poor Indian parents to prefer raising boys. The practice of female infanticide
Health Minister Flavier is a short four and a half feet or so tall — but he talks BIG, and he mouths SMART — proud of what he’s put over on his people. Humor, he says is the way to succeed. After all, the big
PRI Staff The long-standing neglect and outright hostility often directed towards young girls in some Asian countries, appears to have become increasingly common in recent
The medical histories of the dead children of the Shanghai Children’s Welfare Institute, China’s showcase orphanage, read like macabre experiments in human starvation: Ke Yue,
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost
The goal of radical feminists to create a new “gender sensitive” world order took a great leap forward at the Fourth World Conference on Women
Shave, haircut condom, vasectomy …? The Dominican Republic Family Planning Association (Adoplafam), in cooperation with the U.N. Population Fund, began a project in 1991 to
The United Nations says it chose China as the site of the Fourth World Conference on Women because it was Asia’s turn to host the
Although US State Department officials say they’re against coercive population control in China, they have led the effort to deny U.S. asylum to Chinese who
The Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW), to be held in Beijing 30 August to 16 September, has been in the making since 1990. At
India acts to save girl babies: The Indian Parliament has acted to prevent doctors from telling parents the sex of their expected children. The high
Health Minister Flavier is a short four and a half feet or so tall — but he talks BIG, and he mouths SMART — proud