{"id":1778,"date":"2014-08-25T16:49:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2019-03-28T02:40:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:40:23","slug":"wrwf-files-complaint-at-u-n-againt-chinas-forced-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wrwf-files-complaint-at-u-n-againt-chinas-forced-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"WRWF Files Complaint at U.N. Againt China&#8217;s Forced Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45259\" class=\"body undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yiv8677429925\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45262\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45261\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45273\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45272\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45277\" class=\"yiv8677429925gmail_quote\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45276\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45278\" class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">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. (See attached, as well as the electronic link below.) The Complaint chronicles the history of savagely cruel and profoundly disturbing reports emerging from China over the past year, including:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45297\" type=\"disc\">\n<li id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45296\" class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">In China\u2019s Guangxi Region, a man stabbed to death two government workers after they told him he could not register his fourth child because he did not pay the \u201csocial compensation fee.\u201d\u00a0 He injured four other workers, including severing the hand of one. \u201cCrazed Chinese father-of-four stabs two government officials to death over one child policy.\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2376771\/Chinese-father-kills-1-child-policy-officials-registering-4th-child.html\u00a0 7\/24\/13.\u00a0 (Although this incident happened before August 1, 2013, it happened so close to the deadline that it was not included in our 2013 report, so we have included it here.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">In Hunan Province, a husband demanded compensation from the Chinese government, claiming that his wife, Gong Qifeng, has suffered from schizophrenia and violent behavior since she was forcibly aborted at seven months in November, 2011.\u00a0 \u201cForced abortion at 7 Months \u2013 The Horror of China\u2019s One Child Policy Sparks Further Outrage.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/forced-abortion-at-7-months-the-horror-of-chinas-one-child-policy-sparks-further-outrage-101764\/\u00a08\/7\/13; \u201cChinese couple seeks damages for forced abortion.\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/2014\/01\/chinese_couple_seeks_damages_for_forced_abortion\u00a01\/10\/14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">In Shandong Province, Liu Xinwen was dragged out of her home in the middle of the night by 20 officials, who kicked down her door and restrained her husband.\u00a0 They forcibly aborted her, six months pregnant.\u00a0 \u201cChina Couple Speak of \u2018Forced Abortion.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1150016\/china-couple-speak-of-forced-abortion\u00a010\/4\/13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">Ai Guangdong, a farmer in Hebei Province, killed himself by drinking pesticide during a dispute with family planning officials over fines for his over-quota children.\u00a0 Since the farmer did not have money to pay the fines, family planning officials confiscated 3.5 tons of corn, the entire savings of the family.\u00a0 Ai Guangdong then visited the home of the Party Chief to dispute this action.\u00a0 Finally the farmer drank pesticide at the home of the Party Chief, and promptly died.\u00a0 \u201cFarmer drinks poison after being fined for violations of family planning policy.\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/830847.shtml\u00a012\/8\/13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">In Xinjiang Province, four Uyghur women were forcibly aborted, one of them at nine months.\u00a0 As ethnic minorities, Uyghurs are supposedly exempt from the One Child Policy.\u00a0 This is not the case. While they may have more than one child, they are nevertheless subject to coercive termination of out-of-plan pregnancies.\u00a0 \u201cFour Uyghur Women Forced to Abort Their Babies in Zinjiang.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/abortion-12302013050902.html; \u201cXinjiang authorities try to force six women to abort for violating one-child policy.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Xinjiang-authorities-try-to-force-six-women-to-abort-for-violating-one-child-policy-29925.html. 12\/30\/13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">An obstetrician in Shaanxi province, Zhang Shuxia, was convicted of trafficking seven infants, after she had convinced their parents that the infants were seriously ill or deceased.\u00a0 She was given a suspended death sentence.\u00a0 It has been estimated that 70,000 children a year are trafficked in China.\u00a0 The doctor sold boys at a premium, costing more than twice as much as girls.\u00a0 \u201cObstetrician convicted in Chinese baby-trafficking case.\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2014\/01\/obstetrician-convicted-in-chinese-baby-trafficking-case\/\u00a01\/16\/14; \u201cChinese doctor sentenced to death for selling babies.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/14\/chinese-doctor-sentenced-to-death-for-selling-babies\/\u00a01\/14\/14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45308\" class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">In Guizhou Province, a farmer and father of four committed suicide because he could not afford to pay the fines to enroll his children in school.\u00a0 His wife stated, \u201cHe said to me before he cut his wrists, \u2018What did we bring them into the world for, to be as dumb as cattle?\u00a0 I cannot see my children grow up uneducated.\u2019\u201d After his death, the authorities provided the family with a new house and money to educate the children. \u201cChinese father of four commits suicide over one-child policy fines so his children can go to school.\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/chinese-father-of-four-commits-suicide-over-one-child-policy-fines-so-his-c.\u00a0 5\/26\/14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45310\" class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">\u00a0The Complaint argues that the recent \u201creform\u201d \u2013 really, a minor modification \u2013 of the One Child Policy has done little or nothing to end coercive population control or gendercide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">\u00a0The Complaint discusses the connection between China\u2019s One Child Policy and sexual slavery, arguing that the State Department\u2019s recent promotion of China from a Tier 3 to a Tier 2 nation was baseless and unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">\u00a0The Complaint also discusses a recent study finding that multiple abortions leads to a greatly increased risk of breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45313\" class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">\u00a0The Complaint decries the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s practice of persecuting the children of dissidents, including Anni Zhang, ten-years-old at the time of her persecution, who is now being cared for in the United States by WRWF President Reggie Littlejohn and her husband.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45311\" class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">\u00a0The Complaint acknowledges the UNCSW for its \u201cAgreed Conclusions\u201d condemning forced abortion, sterilization and contraception.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">WRWF President Reggie Littlejohn stated:\u00a0 \u201cThe mayhem caused by China\u2019s One Child Policy continues unabated and has taken some troubling new twists, with people being driven to mental breakdown, murder and suicide, as well as an obstetrician using her position of trust in order to traffic babies.\u00a0 The minor modification of the Policy that took place on January 1 of this year has failed to solve these problems.\u00a0 The One Child Policy does not need to be modified.\u00a0 It needs to be abolished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">The full Complaint can be read here:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #196ad4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1759<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">Sign a petition against forced abortion in China:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #196ad4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=sign_our_petition<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">Watch a four-minute video, \u201cStop Forced Abortion \u2013 China\u2019s War on Women\u201d:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #196ad4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv8677429925MsoNormal\">Learn more about our campaign to save girls in China:\u00a0<a id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1408743631472_45319\" style=\"color: #196ad4;\" href=\"http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=end-gendercide-and-forced-abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=end-gendercide-and-forced-abortion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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. 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