Category Archives: forced sterilization

WRWF’s Reggie Littlejohn Partners in Screening of “It’s a Girl” Documentary on Gendercide in India and China

Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is partnering with Rep. Chris Smith and Rep. Jim McDermott in a bipartisan screening of the “It’s a Girl” documentary about gendercide in India and China. Below is the text of her remarks, to be delivered … Continue reading

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China: Woman Dies After Forced Sterilization

Dabancheng Village, Hubei Province. A mother of two died after a forced sterilization, which took place against a doctor’s orders, Women’s Rights in China reports. On March 19, a doctor at Tongshan County warned that sterilizing Shen Hongxia would be … Continue reading

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China: Woman’s Death by Hanging at Family Planning Office – Suicide or Something Else? [WARNING – GRAPHIC PHOTO]

BEIZHANGLOU VILLAGE, HENAN PROVINCE.  Earlier this month, it was reported widely in Chinese media sources that Yang Yuzhi hung herself in the Family Planning Office of Beizhanglou Village, Taikang County, Henan Province.  Forcibly sterilized twice, she had for years suffered … Continue reading

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Chinese Woman Commits Suicide in Family Planning Office [WARNING – GRAPHIC PHOTO]

What follows is the translation of a news story originally published in Chinese.  The links to the original sources are below. At noon on March 13th, 2013, a woman surnamed Yang was found dead, hanging inside the local Family planning office … Continue reading

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United Nations: WRWF’s Reggie Littlejohn Advocates Against Gendercide and Forced Abortion

NEW YORK.  WRWF’s Reggie Littlejohn will be speaking four times this week at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.  The UNCSW is a global policy-making body dedicated to the advancement of gender equality. Littlejohn stated, “WRWF’s work … Continue reading

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Int’l Human Rights Day, Open Letter to Chinese President Xi Demands Immediate End to Forced Abortion

In honor of International Human Rights Day (December 10) Women’s Rights Without Frontiers has joined other human rights organizations, including The Jubilee Campaign and the Justice Foundation, in an open letter to new Chinese President Xi Jinping, demanding the end … Continue reading

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Chen Guangcheng releases powerful video ahead of International Human Rights Day

Blind activist Cheng Guangcheng, whose dramatic escape from house arrest and flight to New York captured the attention of the world in May of this year, has issued a powerful video calling the Chinese Communist Party to account for crimes … Continue reading

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China Has Not “Abandoned” One-Child Policy – Think Tank

The China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) — a think tank affiliated with the Chinese government — has recommended that China gradually phase in a two-child policy over the next three years, and then cease all birth limits in the year … Continue reading

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WRWF’s Reggie Littlejohn Challenges UNFPA, IPPF at European Parliament

Brussels, November 6, 2012.  Women’s Rights Without Frontiers President Reggie Littlejohn co-presented the feature-length documentary, “It’s a Girl,” at the European Parliament, together with the film’s director, Evan Grae-Davis. Littlejohn is featured as an expert on China’s One Child Policy … Continue reading

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WRWF’s Reggie Littlejohn to Co-Present “It’s a Girl” Film on Gendercide in British Parliament Today

LONDON, Oct. 30.  Women’s Rights Without Frontiers President Reggie Littlejohn is featured as an expert on China’s One Child Policy in the powerful new film on gendercide, “It’s a Girl.”  She will co-present the film at the British Parliament’s House … Continue reading

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