Famous Chinese Filmmaker Investigated for Breaking One-Child Policy
Family planning agents are investigating China’s most famous film director for reportedly having 7 children with 4 women. If guilty of breaking China’s laws, Zhang Yimou could face $27 million in fines. Zhang designed the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. His films, like Raise the Red Lantern, have won international acclaim. Reports of his [...]
Monitoring the Monitors
As reported in last week’s Friday Fax, Alliance Defending Freedom took the floor recently at a General Assembly forum on how to reform United Nations Treaty Bodies, calling on the Treaty Bodies not to usurp functions that do not rightfully belong to them. These treaty monitoring bodies, also called “Compliance Committees,” are generally empowered to [...]
Group Warns – Reports of End of Forced Abortions in China – “Naive”
China Aid, an organization engaged in ending human rights abuses in China, is calling reports that China has banned forced abortions and sterilizations - “naive rumors.” All Girls Allowed (AGA), an organization committed to ending female genocide in China reported earlier in the month that the Chinese government had issued a document to state-run Family Planning offices [...]
Namibia High Court Rules in Favor of Sterilized HIV Women
The Namibian High Court ruled in favor of 3 HIV-positve women who were coerced into receiving sterilizations when they went to state hospitals to have their babies. The women reported that they went to the hospital to have a caesarean section since they were HIV and wanted to prevent transmission to their child. While at the hospital [...]