During a gripping testimony in front of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, a human rights activist said China’s one-child policy has not only led to the “systematic elimination of girls” through forced abortion, but is causing an epidemic of suicide among women in China.
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Chen Guangcheng Now Wants Asylum in the U.S.
Even though it was widely reported that blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng left the U.S. embassy yesterday on his own volition for a “safe location” somewhere in China, Chen is now saying that he was not given full information about his release and is asking for asylum in the U.S.
Women’s Group Pleads for Life of Chinese Dissident
An international women’s organization devoted to combating forced abortion and human trafficking has published an impassioned letter to President Barack Obama calling upon him to provide diplomatic protection for Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident and “warrior of women’s rights” who recently escaped house arrest after opposing China’s brutal one-child family planning program.
U.S. Frantic to Broker Deal on Escaped Chinese Activist
When forced abortion opponent and blind attorney Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest in China last week and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, he touched off what some are calling the most significant challenge to U.S.-China relations since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
