Source: ReutersAuthor: Pulsihed Time: Dec 20, 2011 By Marie-Louise Gumuchian TRIPOLI | Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:58pm IST (Reuters) – At a pre-wedding evening party in central Tripoli, a group of Libyan women sing traditional songs to the beat of a drum as they prepare to apply henna to the bride’s hands and feet. Clapping…
Detailsestannard@nhregister.com / Twitter: @edstannardnhr NEW HAVEN — A rising Chinese communist star who claimed to have served as an assistant to Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in 2000 was largely responsible for the torture and imprisonment of an outspoken human rights activist, according to China watchers in this country. Li Qun, who spent six months studying…
DetailsArthur: WRIC Volunteer Tan Chunsheng Ms. Luo was born in 1983 in Guangxi province, China. She was married and moved to her husband’s village within Anqing City, Anhui province in 2001. She gave birth to a boy in 2002 and a girl in 2006. The family was poor. Ms. Luo’s husband was…
DetailsZhejiang News, Sept. 5 2011 A couple who performed over 600 illegal ultrasound procedures had been arrested by police in Jiangbei District of the City of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. The couple was originally from Shangyin County, Anhui Province and operated under assumed names of Liu Lin…
DetailsWRIC Volunteer Isabelle Ren September 4, 2011 There is a Chinese saying that goes “the parts where you eat nourish…
DetailsSource： WRIC 08-15-2011 In order to have another child without incurring Population Control fines, a couple, Mr. Yi and Ms. Gong of Changzhou acquired residency of a foreign country and give birth to…
DetailsWomen’s Rights in China President Jing Zhang July 30, 2011 I remember an afternoon forty years ago. My father furiously slapped my uncle. The argument was behind closed doors and hushed. I couldn’t…
DetailsBy WRIC Volunteer Li Yanglong Gu’s husband wanted a son. He already had two daughters. He asked his wife to try one more time, illegally, to bear a son. She was determined to give the family a boy who could carry the family name forward. Gu’s first daughter was six, the second one four and…
DetailsYangtze Evening News Mar 2010 In order to have another child without incurring Population Control fines, a couple, Mr. Yi and Ms. Gong of Changzhou acquired residency of a foreign country and give birth to their “illegal” above quota child in Hong Kong. When they returned to Mainland China,…
DetailsSource: http://www.acton.org Author: Anthony B. Bradley Pulsihed Time: April 7, 2009 Heavy-handed government intervention without regard for human dignity produces long-term deleterious effects. Unintended consequences include a dehumanized social sphere and a debilitated economy. China’s family planning policies, established nearly 30 years ago, are a case in point. China’s one-child policy, often enforced by coercive…
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