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WRIC Releases E-Book The Status of Females in Rural China

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WRIC Volunteer: Gordon Bi

 

The Status of Females in Rural China Introduction：

 

The Chinese government, in the name of the state, has carried out an anti-human massacre plan with the largest scale, the largest number of murders, the worst torture and the deepest harm in human history, which is the root of depriving Chinese women and children of their basic rights and interests. The abduction and trafficking of children, the gender imbalance, the aging society, and the upbringing problems among families, derived from the One Child policy, have caused serious social problems, even immeasurable disasters. The 5 main projects of WRIC include anti-forced abortion, helping child brides, anti-trafficking activities, support abandoned girls, and assist the rural baby girls. This book features more than 300 pictures, which all of them were taken by WRIC volunteers along with their true stories that show the reality of rural women’s lives in China. For this, our volunteers were jailed and given different sentences. If you research China’s One Child Policy and statuses of women and children in rural China, this book will tell you more details about the reality of 800 million people living in the countrysides.

 

About WRIC：

 

A complete set of pictures of cooking fetal corpses, being enjoyed by the old and young people around table, was spreading on the Internet in 2005: a fetal corpse was washed with clean water, another fetus and traditional Chinese medi-cines were placed on chopping board, a pot on fire, an ugly man’s face, and finally a family gnawed and drank the skin, the meat and the broth… Jing Zhang, a former journalist, was extremely shocked. Soon another scandal circulated on the Internet: two teenage female orphans in Nantong (Jiangsu Province) Children’s Welfare Home (orphanage) were hospitalized to remove their uteri, the president of the orphanage said that she was afraid that their menstruation would be unclean and pre-vent them from being pregnant. She also said that the whole Chinese industry did so. Next, a reporter exposed a long list of names of female orphans who had been deprived of their wombs. After a long talk by chance, Jing Zhang was inspired by the famous media colleague, Gao Yu and decided to do her best for the girls. In 2007, Jing Zhang founded Women’s Rights in China(WRIC), a non-profit organization (NGO) in New York. To safeguard the rights and interests of vulnerable groups in China, especially women and children, to be the voice for them, and to strive to build a fair and reasonable society, is the goal of WRIC’s mission.

 

According to the survey from WRIC, the Chinese government, in the name of the state, has carried out an anti-human massacre plan with the largest scale, the largest number of murders, the worst torture and the deepest harm in human history, which is the root of depriving Chinese women and children of their basic rights and interests. The abduction and trafficking of children, the gender imbalance, the aging society, and the upbringing problems among families, derived from the One Child policy, have caused serious social problems, even immeasurable disasters. The 5 main projects of WRIC include anti-forced abortion, helping child brides, anti-trafficking activities, support abandoned girls, and assist the rural baby girls. This book features more than 300 pictures, which all of them were taken by WRIC volunteers along with their true stories that show the reality of rural women’s lives in China. For this, our volunteers were jailed and given different sentences. If you research China’s One Child Policy and statuses of women and children in rural China, this book will tell you more details about the reality of 800 million people living in the countrysides.

WRIC, a group of sisters and brothers who have ideals and seek justice, have been working hard to safeguard the people’s legal rights for ten years, hand in hand and heart in heart. How many passions touched, success or failure, gains and losses, crying, laughing, and striving, the ideal of a just society to pursue together!

All the way, it was full of difficulties and dangers. Looking back ten years ago, we have no complaints and no regrets! On the occasion of celebrating the 10th anniversary of WRIC, we have published a realistic anthology “The Ten-Year Record of WRIC’s Forum” and a short documentary, which includes interviews, surveys, financial aids, supports and demonstrations we have done in the past ten years in mainland China and at our headquarters in the United States, in order to dedicate ourselves to WRIC’s volunteers who are fearless of the fierce power and imprisonment. They adhere to their beliefs and move forward and forward. Let us honor them with lofty respects! It is also a memorial to the death in the despotic and patriarchal society.

Sep. 2018

 

 

 

OPEN LETTER: Hold China Accountable for Crushing Dissent in Hong Kong

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By  Women’s Rights Without

      Women’s Rights in China                             January 01, 2020

 

 

To:  President Trump, the United States  and the United Nations:

Congress

 

A peaceful and prosperous Hong Kong poses an existential threat to the Chinese Communist Party’s narrative that Chinese people cannot thrive under freedom and democracy.  The CCP has circumvented the rule of law by issuing a National Security Law that would crush all dissent in Hong Kong.

 

We call upon President Trump, the United States Congress, the United Nations, and people of conscience all over the world, to set aside all political differences and continue to take bold action to hold China accountable for its hubris.   We commend President Trump’s promise to end Hong Kong’s trading privileges, as well as the joint statement issued by the governments of the United States, UK, Australia and Canada, condemning China’s violation of the “one country, two systems” policy promised in the 1997 transfer of power from British to Chinese rule.

 

When Britain agreed to return Hong Kong to China in 1997, China agreed to afford Hong Kong protection of a “high degree of autonomy” in government, law and finances for 50 years, until 2047.   Abrogating this autonomy, the National People’s Congress (NPC) has passed a law bypassing Hong Kong’s own Legislative Council.   The CCP-owned China Daily stated that the new law is intended to “prevent, frustrate and punish any secessionist or subversive activity, the organizing of terrorist acts, and other acts that seriously threaten national security as well as activities of foreign and external interference in Hong Kong.”  Indeed, according to a top CCP official quoted in China Daily, its intent is merely “to protect Hong Kong residents from the criminal acts of a small number of extremists.”

 

In practice, this law can be used to crush free speech, criticism, protest and dissent.   Countless Chinese dissidents have been jailed on groundless charges of “subversion,” including Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who in 2009 was sentenced to 11 years in prison for calling for democratic reform.  He died while serving his sentence. Hong Kong activists rightly fear that this new law will render dissent, or even political discourse, a criminal offense.  It represents the end of “one country, two systems.”

 

Equally worrisome, the new law implies that security forces from mainland China, such as the Ministry of State Security, will be set up in Hong Kong.  According to a second article in China Daily,  “The NPC draft decision has also stipulated that organs of national security of the central government will set up agencies in Hong Kong, whose operation will be according to law.” The people of Hong Kong mounted massive protests to prevent extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China.  Now, the dreaded national security apparatus of mainland China will take residence Hong Kong.

 

We stand with the people of Hong Kong, who have suffered so terribly in their struggle to maintain the autonomy promised them.  We commend the actions the U.S. government has already taken to disengage economically from the PRC, including the May 27 declaration that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous, and President Trump’s announcement that the US will end Hong Kong’s trade privileges. These tragic actions should be blamed on the CCP, whose shameless maneuvers and raw power grabs have brought us to this point.

 

The global community needs to protect international security and economic interests.  On the table should be various economic and financial sanctions, such as those recommended by the Committee on the Present Danger:  China. In addition, we need to hold individuals accountable through the Global Magnitsky Act.

 

We also need to increase our commitment to the people of Taiwan, especially in light of the ominous statement by a top Chinese general that China will attack Taiwan to stop independence.  Hong Kong now, Taiwan next?

 

Taiwan is opening its arms to Hong Kong citizens who want to resettle in the face of the tightening grip of the CCP.   We call upon the United States and governments the world over to do the same.

 

While our two organizations advocate for women’s rights, we note that half of the people of Hong Kong are female.   Our organizations will, as always, do our part to assist women and children persecuted by China’s authoritarian regime.

 

Reggie Littlejohn, Founder and President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers

Jing Zhang, Founder and President, Women’s Rights in China