An Unhappy Mother's Day in China
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.
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.
Steven Kurlander | Posted 05.08.2012
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.
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | Posted 05.08.2012
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.
Kerry Kennedy | Posted 05.05.2012
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.
Chai Ling | Posted 04.30.2012
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.
Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 04.11.2012
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.
Chai Ling | Posted 05.22.2012
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.
Posted 03.07.2012
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned Tuesday that President Barack Obama's contraception mandate requiring most religiously-affiliated employers' he...
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...
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...
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...
Chai Ling | Posted 01.12.2012
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?
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'...
Ken Blackwell | Posted 11.01.2011
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Charles Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Michael Solis | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Heidiminx | Posted 05.25.2011
It is time to change the soundtrack, and tell the true stories of TRUE progress.
Marina Cashdan | Posted 05.25.2011
Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
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...
Megan Fluker | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Chai Ling | Posted 05.15.2012