China One Child Policy

An Unhappy Mother's Day in China

Chai Ling | Posted 05.15.2012

Chai Ling

On this Mother's Day, however, Chinese women have little to celebrate. In the past month, Chinese officials once again renewed their commitment to enforcing the One-Child Policy for years to come.

Human Rights & Florida: Why just Cuba and Syria?

Steven Kurlander | Posted 05.08.2012

Steven Kurlander

How come Tallahassee doesn't ban contracts with companies doing business with China, too? Why just Cuba and Syria? Silly question, because with a Chinese ban, virtually no businesses could do business with Florida governments.

Blind Man's Bluff and Peddling Flesh in Today's China

Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | Posted 05.08.2012

Peter Navarro and Greg Autry

While the Chinese constitution ensures all popular fundamental rights of free speech, religion, assembly, and person the reality is Beijing constantly tops the global leaderboards for censorship, political imprisonments, and executions.

Dissent, China's One Child Policy and Chen Guangcheng

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 05.05.2012

Kerry Kennedy

While the U.S. State Department and Chinese officials wrangle over Mr. Chen's fate, the larger questions concern the horrific contours of government population control and the fate of those who dissent in China.

Chen Guangcheng's Escape: What China Is Trying to Hide From You

Chai Ling | Posted 04.30.2012

Chai Ling

With the eyes of the world watching, China must allow Chen and his family to live in freedom. Critically, the nation must also heed widespread calls to repeal the One-Child Policy, whose victims are largely voiceless.

The Global Problem of Gender Inequality

Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 04.11.2012

Nake M. Kamrany

The evidence of gender discrimination is rooted in history, tradition and culture. Gender inequality is a highly debilitating stigma and leads to detriments of women's psychology of their worth and dignity to themselves and to society.

China Must End Its One-Child Policy If It Wants to Get Serious About Reducing Human Trafficking

Chai Ling | Posted 05.22.2012

Chai Ling

China says it has stepped up its efforts to rescue human trafficking victims over the past year, but the irony is inescapable: if the Chinese government had halted its harsh and brutal enforcement of the One-Child Policy, human trafficking would be a much less severe problem than it is now.

Bachmann Sounds Dire Warning About Contraception Mandate

Posted 03.07.2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned Tuesday that President Barack Obama's contraception mandate requiring most religiously-affiliated employers' he...

Why The Newest Octomom Is So Controversial

AP | By ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 02.29.2012

BEIJING -- The photo was undeniably cute: a studio portrait of eight babies in identical onesies and perky white cotton hats, sporting an array of exp...

A Daring Few Challenge China's One-Child Limit

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 02.23.2012

ZHUJI, China — Seven months pregnant, Wu Weiping sneaked out early in the morning carrying a shoulder bag with some clothes, her laptop and a kn...

Major Bust In Thriving Market For Baby Boys

AP | By ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 12.07.2011

BEIJING -- Chinese police arrested 608 suspects and rescued 178 children in busts of two separate child trafficking networks, authorities said Wednesd...

Time to Think Differently About China

Chai Ling | Posted 01.12.2012

Chai Ling

What will Hu Jianto and President Obama discuss during his visit? The dire case of Chen Guangcheng, whose life hangs in the balance, the millions of lives China's One-Child Policy is "preventing" -- or simply business?

Laura Bassett

House Republicans Cut More Funding For Women's Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.05.2011

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bill on Wednesday that zeroes out U.S. aid to the United Nations Population Fund, a women and children'...

Biden "Understands" China's Violence Against Women

Ken Blackwell | Posted 11.01.2011

Ken Blackwell

They let Joe Biden out without a leash again. He went to China this month and pronounced the Communist giant's one child policy "repugnant." That was,...

Biden On China's One-Child Policy: 'I Understand'

Posted 10.24.2011

By Jason Miks, The Diplomat US Vice President Joe Biden has provoked outrage in some quarters in the United States after saying that he ‘fu...

China Probes Sale Of 'Illegal Children'

Posted 07.10.2011

A southern Chinese province has begun investigating a report that officials had seized at least 16 babies born in violation of strict family plan...

Chinese President Pledges To Maintain One-Child Policy

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 06.27.2011

BEIJING — China's population is aging rapidly, with half the people now living in cities, the government said Thursday. The data from a nationa...

World's Biggest Census Begins In China

AP | CHI-CHI ZHANG | Posted 05.25.2011

BEIJING — China kicked off a once-a-decade census Monday, a whirlwind 10-day head count that sees 6 million census takers scrutinize apartment b...

Beijing Music Festival 2010: China's Future in Performing Arts

Charles Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011

Charles Fabius

Top leaders in the performing arts sat down with Chinese cultural officials, only to find out that China seems to be addressing the issues head-on in a fearless way. At least so it seems, watching Yu Long.

China's One Child Policy in 2010

Michael Solis | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Solis

Just days before Liu Dan's due date in February 2009, workers from China's Population and Family Planning Commission, which regulates the nation's One Child Policy, abducted Liu from her home.

PROPAGANDA: PR With an Oppressive Agenda

Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011

Heidiminx

It is time to change the soundtrack, and tell the true stories of TRUE progress.

Only-Child Syndrome: Li Tianbing at Contrasts Gallery

Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011

Marina Cashdan

2010-09-08-litianbing.jpg "I missed having siblings in my childhood," Li Tianbing says of China's one child policy, "so I tried to make up for this in my painting."

Eco Etiquette: Should We Stop Having Children?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I have a friend who alway...

Why The END Of Cheap Chinese Labor Is Near

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Last month, nearly 2,000 Chinese workers went on strike at a Honda transmission factory in southern China. The strike eventually spread across the mai...

Secretary Clinton Should Raise Issue of China's One Child Policy in Beijing

Megan Fluker | Posted 05.25.2011

Megan Fluker

The American public often views China's One Child Policy through the lens of the US abortion debate. But this not a pro-choice or pro-life issue; it's a human rights issue.