BEIJING -- Authorities are investigating whether one of China's top film directors fathered seven children in violation of the country's strict family...

Does silence help women? I mean, silence about violations of women's rights? The question arises from testimony Congress last week from human rights activists who discussed China's barbaric policy toward women and their unborn children.

By Sui-Lee Wee and Hui Li JIUQUAN, China, Jan 22 (Reuters) - China could be considering relaxing its harsh one-child policy because of...

BEIJING (AP) — They're called "little emperors" — the children born in China under a law that generally limits urban families to having just one c...

BEIJING — A government think tank is urging Chinese leaders to start phasing out China's one-child policy immediately and allow two children for...

China has increasingly become part of the conversation in U.S. abortion debate -- much to the chagrin of some liberal politicians, who cite conservative references to atrocities in China as incendiary tactics.

BEIJING -- The Chinese father of a forcibly aborted baby whose case prompted an international outcry has been beaten and forced into hiding, while his...

BEIJING — China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case ...

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.

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.

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 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.

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...

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

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?