{"id":2514,"date":"2017-03-31T22:19:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T22:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2017-03-31T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T22:19:32","slug":"reggie-littlejohn-to-united-nations-forced-abortion-continues-in-china-investigate-and-defund-unfpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/reggie-littlejohn-to-united-nations-forced-abortion-continues-in-china-investigate-and-defund-unfpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggie Littlejohn to United Nations: Forced Abortion Continues in China; Investigate and Defund UNFPA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reggie Littlejohn stands before the UNCSW 61 banner at the United Nations in New York. Credit: Fiona Basile<\/p><\/div>\n

NEW YORK.\u00a0 \u00a0Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers<\/a> has hosted its first event \u2013 entitled, \u201cFemicide, Trafficking and Reproductive Violence Against Women and Girls\u201d — at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).\u00a0 WRWF Founder and President, Reggie Littlejohn, discussed reports that forced abortion of third children and single women, as well as the conditions that give rise to the sex-selective abortion of baby girls, continue under the two-child policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reggie Littlejohn with co-panelists Rebecca Oas of C-FAM (left) and Arina Grossu of FRC (right). Credit: Fiona Basile<\/p><\/div>\n

One of Littlejohn\u2019s recommendations regarding how the UN can help the women and babies of China is by investigating UNFPA\u2019s activities in China, demanding transparency, and in the case of a lack of cooperation, defunding UNFPA.\u00a0 Littlejohn states:\u00a0 \u201cThe United States Secretary of State should investigate and evaluate UNFPA\u2019s activities in China, and the President should de-fund them under the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which \u2018prohibits funding for any organization or program that, as determined by the President, supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUNFPA has been found to be complicit with coercive population control in China in the past,<\/a> and I have no doubt that any unbiased investigation would find them complicit again.\u00a0 I have long advocated for the defunding of UNFPA.\u00a0 <\/a>The U.S. cut off funding to UNFPA in 2002 because an investigation, headed by then Secretary of State Colin Powell, found that UNFPA was complicit with the Chinese Family Planning officials in coercive implementation of China\u2019s one-child policy.\u00a0 The Obama administration restored this funding.\u00a0 The UNCSW \u2013 as the advocate for women\u2019s rights within the United Nations \u2013 should press relentlessly on the UNFPA to be fully transparent and accountable regarding its \u2018family planning\u2019 activities in China.\u00a0 I believe that any independent, unbiased investigation into UNFPA\u2019s activities in China will lead to the inescapable conclusion that they are complicit with China\u2019s population control practices, which include forced abortion and involuntary sterilization.\u00a0 To the extent that the global community is funding the UNFPA, the blood of Chinese women and babies is on our hands.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Baby saved by WRWF\u2019s Save a Girl Campaign. Photo courtesy of WRWF.<\/p><\/div>\n

Littlejohn also recommended that the Chinese government implement a program to save baby girls, similar to the WRWF\u2019s successful \u201cSave a Girl\u201d Campaign.\u00a0 She stated, \u201cWomen\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers has found our \u2018Save a Girl\u2019 Campaign<\/a> to be highly effective in saving the lives of baby girls in China and enabling mothers to keep their daughters.\u00a0 When our network in China learns of a woman who is being pressured to abort or abandon her baby girl, or whose family is so poor that her daughter is at risk, a fieldworker will go to her door and offer encouragement and practical support, saying, \u2018Don\u2019t abort or abandon your baby girl.\u00a0 She is a precious daughter and will bring you much joy!\u00a0 We will offer you monthly support for a year to enable you to keep your daughter.\u2019\u00a0 We have saved hundreds of baby girls this way in our small area of China, and would encourage the Chinese government to implement such a program nationwide, to address China\u2019s pressing gendercide issue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Read Littlejohn\u2019s complete Remarks here. <\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The panel also featured Arina Grossu<\/a> of the Family Research Council, whose topic was \u201cSex Trafficking and its Relation to Pornography, Violence and Abortion\u201d; and Rebecca Oas<\/a> of C-FAM, whose topic was \u201cDistortions in the Data: Ensuring Women\u2019s Priorities Count in the SDG Indicators.\u201d\u00a0 Attendance was standing room only.<\/span><\/p>\n

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