{"id":1292,"date":"2013-08-02T05:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T05:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2019-03-28T02:35:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:35:43","slug":"wrwfs-complaint-to-the-u-n-condemns-maiming-and-death-under-chinas-one-child-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wrwfs-complaint-to-the-u-n-condemns-maiming-and-death-under-chinas-one-child-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"WRWF&#8217;s Complaint to the U.N. Condemns Maiming and Death Under China&#8217;s One Child Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers has filed a Complaint with the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) against the Chinese Government for the coercive enforcement of China\u2019s One Child Policy.\u00a0 The Complaint chronicles the history of barbarous reports emerging from China since the beginning of this year, for example:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;\">On February 4, 2013, Family Planning Officials got into an argument with a couple who had three children.\u00a0 In the tussle that followed, these Officials ran over the couple\u2019s thirteen-month-old baby with their car, killing him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=938\">http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=938<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;\">On March 19, 2013, in Dabancheng Village, Hubei Province, a mother of two died after a forced sterilization, which took place against a doctor\u2019s orders. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1010\">http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1010<\/a><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;\">On May 15, 2013, in Xinyi City, Jiangsu Province, more than 20 Family Planning Officials beat a farmer almost to death, because he and his wife have three children.\u00a0 Zhang Futao suffered severe head injuries and is in critical condition from the beating.\u00a0 According to the family, he suffered a fractured skull and a brain hemorrhage. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1136\">http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1136<\/a><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;\">On May 23, 2013, a woman from Yuyue Town, Hubei Province, died after a forced abortion.\u00a0 She was six months\u2019 pregnant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1141 \">http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1141 <\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">The Complaint discusses the connection between China\u2019s One Child Policy and sexual slavery, as well as a recent study finding that multiple abortions lead to low birth weight and an increased risk of death to children born in subsequent pregnancies. The Complaint acknowledges the UNCSW for its \u201cAgreed Conclusions\u201d condemning forced abortion, sterilization and contraception. It nevertheless challenges the UNCSW to investigate the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), which was found to be complicit with coercive family planning by former Secretary of State Colin Powell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">WRWF President Reggie Littlejohn stated: \u201cThe mayhem caused by China\u2019s One Child Policy continues unabated. Forced abortion is Official Government Rape. Not only women, but also men and children have been maimed and killed under the policy. The report recounts a grim case of suicide, which graphically demonstrates why China has the highest female suicide rate in the world. We are dismayed that o<\/span><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;\">n January 14, 2013, Wang Xia, the Chair of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, stated that China \u201cmust unwaveringly adhere to the One Child Policy as a national policy to stabilize the low birth rate as the primary task.\u201d\u00a0 We call upon the Chinese Communist Party immediately to stop coercive family planning; and we call upon members of the international community to urge them to do so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">The full Complaint can be read here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1254\">http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1254<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;\">Sign a petition against forced abortion in China:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition\">http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\">Watch a four-minute video, \u201cStop Forced Abortion \u2013 China\u2019s War on Women\u201d:<span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY\"><span style=\"color: #001ac5;\"><br \/>\nwww.youtube.com\/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp; amp; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;amp; amp; color: #10245b; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\">Learn more about our campaign to save girls in China:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=end-gendercide-and-forced-abortion\">http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=end-gendercide-and-forced-abortion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers has filed a Complaint with the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) against the Chinese Government for the coercive enforcement of China\u2019s One Child Policy.\u00a0 The Complaint chronicles the history of barbarous reports &hellip; 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