Reviewing the policy and its impact on the role of girls in China

1. The most basic of all
human rights is the
right to live.
GENDERCIDE IN CHINA
The Hidden Holocaust

3. Why now?: Because there are 40 to 60 million
Chinese bachelors unable to find a bride.
Until recently foreigners could adopt
“unwanted”, abandoned Chinese girls but the
Chinese government is now preventing these
adoptions as it casts the government in a bad
light
1,7 million girls go missing each year!

5. Population Crisis in China
•Almost a quarter of the world’s population
lives on just over 5% of the arable land.
This resulted in a huge crisis – China had
to find a solution to this problem
•In 1979, the Chinese government initiated
a policy that permitted only one child per
couple.
•In some rural areas, families are allowed
to have two children, if the first child is
female, or disabled.

7. results of One-child policy:
A drop of 300 million births in China – i.e Equal to
USA entire population
•Improved standard of living for smaller families
•China was finally able to feed its people at least “one
bowl of rice a day.”
results
Second generation of single children ‐‐with no
aunts, uncles, siblings or cousins
A set of parents and two sets of grandparents cater to
one child (“Little Emperor”)
Later, all 6 adults rely upon this one child to work the
land and support them

9. How do you guarantee that your only
child is a boy?
Gender‐selection abortions
•Government widely distributes Sonograms to help
officials ensure that women are NOT pregnant or
that they are using birth control devices, these are
then used for sex‐selection abortions
•These abortions are NOT illegal (The law banning
it has been withdrawn)
Ascertaining the sex of a fetus can only be done at
18 weeks of pregnancy or later – (4 ½ months)
•There are frequent reports in Chinese media of
sex‐selection abortions at 7th, 8th or 9th month of
pregnancy

11. Fatally neglect your daughtes so they die
prematurely
Deliberately under feed girls and or fail to provide
them with the necessary medical care so that
when they die you can have a son.
Kill your daughters outight
There is a history of infanticide – It is estimated that
hundreds of thousands of girl infants are killed every
year – often by other members of the family. They are
drowned, suffocated or starved to death!
Doctors kill 3rd born girls or girls born without the
government’s consent – they often smother them to
death at birth! They do this to avoid being punished
themselves for failing to honour family planning policies..

13. Abandon your daughters – but do so with care!
•Do this when your daughter is born or
• When you finally give birth to the son you really
want or if your daughter is your 3rd or later birth
order child or
•If you get remarried and want children with your
new partner or
Traffic your daughter to the highest bidder
• sell her to child traffickers for as little as $8 / or
to become the future bride of a wealthy family
with a son!
* Strangely enough abandonment of an infant is
punishable by law but killing an infant is not.

14. What is the rest of the world doing about this
gendercide in China?
It was not even covered in Human Rights Watchʹs
report in January 2007
•Acknowledged in five words in the 2005 U.S. State
Department report
•Only got a passing nod in the World Health
Organization report
•Not mentioned in any Amnesty International reports
•Not touched in Human Rights in China organization’s
projects
• It is not covered in the Convention of the
Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW)
. WHY NOT? This is a disgrace!

17. •Additional research sources (inc. for China Population to 2050):
National Population & Family Planning Commission of China in 2003
•http://www.china.com.cn/people/txt/2004‐05/21/content_5569757.htm
•http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgb/
•http://www.gjjsw.gov.cn/rkzh/rk/tjzlzg/t20070302_172620953.html
•http://www.cpirc.org.cn/tjsj/tjsj_cy_detail.asp?id=6740
•http://www.cpirc.org.cn/tjsj/tjsj_cy_detail.asp?id=304
•http://www.cpirc.org.cn/tjsj/tjsj_cy_detail.asp?id=2630
•http://www.cpirc.org.cn/tjsj/tjsj_cy_detail.asp?id=4275
•http://www.cpirc.org.cn/tjsj/tjsj_cy_detail.asp?id=6628
•http://www.cpirc.org.cn/tjsj/tjsj_cd_detail.asp?id=4235
•http://www.gjjsw.gov.cn/rkzh/rk/tjzlzg/t20070111_200559299
• http://www.taliacarner.com
• http://www.Brian Woods’“The Dying Rooms”Research‐China.org