{"id":3573,"date":"2022-03-08T03:28:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T03:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2022-03-08T03:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T03:28:20","slug":"intl-womens-day-mother-of-eight-chained-by-the-neck-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/intl-womens-day-mother-of-eight-chained-by-the-neck-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Int\u2019l Women\u2019s Day: Mother of Eight Chained by the Neck in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 8 marks International Women\u2019s Day, in which the Chinese Communist Party celebrates its supposed empowerment of women, who Mao once famously said \u201chold up half the sky.\u201d\u00a0 The reality for many women in China, however, is far different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disturbing video of a woman, chained by the neck, wearing thin clothing in cold, winter weather, has gone viral in China, sparking outrage.\u00a0 The woman is shown living in a squalid hut with no door, in the rural outskirts of Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province.\u00a0 She is said to be the mother of eight children, seven boys and one girl.\u00a0 The Chinese Communist Party has issued several, contradictory statements<\/a> regarding the woman \u2013 including the allegation that she is suffering from mental illness — leading to skepticism and anger on the part of Chinese netizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plight of this forsaken woman is heartbreaking.\u00a0 It raises pressing questions.\u00a0 What is her true identity?\u00a0 Was she trafficked?\u00a0 How was she allowed to have eight children under the One Child Policy?\u00a0\u00a0 Do the children all have the same father, or several fathers?\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t authorities in her village protect her?\u00a0 Why would it matter that she might suffer from mental illness?\u00a0 Would this somehow justify chaining her around the neck and leaving her in scant clothing in\u00a0an unheated, open-air hut?\u00a0 Where is she now?\u00a0 Are she and her children safe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shocking treatment of this woman raises the issue of sexual slavery in China. Because of the lethal combination of son preference and a coercive low birth limit under the historic One Child Policy, tens of millions of baby girls have been selectively aborted or abandoned, just because they were female.  This has led to a situation where there are an estimated 30 to 40 million more males living in China than females.  This catastrophic gender imbalance is driving sexual slavery within China and from the surrounding countries.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For several years in a row, China has been rated a \u201cTier 3\u201d nation in the United States Department of State\u2019s Trafficking in Persons (\u201cTIP\u201d) Report<\/a>, because \u201cThe [CCP] does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant effort to do so . . .\u201d\u00a0 Indeed, the TIP report raises the specter of the complicity<\/em><\/strong> of officials in sex trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite continued reports of law enforcement officials benefiting from, permitting, or directly facilitating sex trafficking and forced labor, the\u00a0government did not report any investigations, prosecutions,\u00a0or\u00a0convictions\u00a0of law enforcement officials allegedly involved in the crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did the officials in Xuzhou City know about the mother of eight,\u00a0chained in their midst?\u00a0 If they did, why didn\u2019t they help her?\u00a0 Were they complicit in her abuse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On International Women’s Day, let us not forget the chained mother of eight, and those who, like her, are victims of human trafficking and sexual slavery, in China and worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One fifth of the women in the world today live in China.\u00a0 The women of the world will not be free until the women of China are free.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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