Essay about Comunist China And Civil Rights Violations

In the mid-1980's, according to Chinese government statistics, birth control surgeries such as abortions, sterilizations, and IUD insertions, were running at a rate of 30 million a year. (Mosher 50) Numbers for more recent years are unavailable; the Chinese government, embarrassed by reports of coercion and female infanticide, has refused to release them. Many, if not most, of these operations are performed on women whose "consent" has been wrung out of them by threats and punishments. (Mosher 50) When questions are asked of the whereabouts of the 1.7 million female babies that fail to show up in birth statistics each year, there are disturbing explanations. (Richards 6)

Imagine. Imagine having the continuous feeling of needing to act a certain way because that is what the government wants. Imagine having to worship in an underground church because of belonging to the "wrong" religion. Imagine being blind and not being able to learn because the government cannot accept a disability. Lastly, imagine being killed because of simply disagreeing. This is everyday life in China for many people because of what the Communist Chinese government has caused for decades. Human Rights Abuse in China has caused millions of deaths and permanent injuries. In 1979, the One Child Policy was created and ever since then the abuse has escalated into being a normal part of lives. On June 4 1989, the government took the abuse to a whole other level. This fateful day was called the Tiananmen Square crackdown. This was the day of millions of deaths. China's government truly takes human rights violations to an extreme and has caused fear among their people. The government has previously claimed

Rural women struggled under the double burden of both work and child rearing (Roberts, 1999). And, infamously, the one-child family policy, which required most Chinese families to have only a single child, robbed women of any control over their own bodies. This paper will recount the history of the Chinese government’s struggle with its growing population, culminating in the one-child policy, describe the goals and enforcement methods of the policy itself, examine the effectiveness of the policy, outline the government’s shift to its new, current two-child policy, and argue that the one-child policy shows the continuation of female repression in China, despite the Communists’ promises.

The first problem is gender imbalance. There is a cultural belief in China that a boy is more desirable than a girl. It is because Chinese people strive for a carry on family name. When woman gets married to a man, she has to change her family name into her husband’s family name. Since a couple is allowed to only have a child, then it has to be a boy. Using the ultra sound technology, a couple could identify the gender of the unborn fetus. If the result is a girl, the couple will brutally neglect, abandon, abort, or even perform an infanticide.

It is not coincidental to discover the elimination of femininity in its various methods in a social institution that implements oppression and dehumanization on human instinct for the sake of controlling civilians. After the Chinese communist government was established in early 1950s, the Chairman of that time, Mao Zedong, encouraged Chinese women to leave their traditional family and join the labor force by calling that “women can hold up half of the sky”, which means women were capable of doing anything that men can do and have a responsibility to do their share (NY Times). In addition to the seemingly equal gender role that reflects the need for labor rather than the necessity of equality between men and women, the Chinese communist government, in its following decades of dominance, has changed the child policy six times in response to major social changes that had

China has the most documented female suicides in any country, approximately 500 women a day (Women's Rights Without Frontiers). Women are forced to undergo abortions, commit acts of infanticide or abandon their babies. Every forced act of gendercide damages the essence of a woman. A woman’s body is no longer hers and the choice of pro-life for her baby is no longer her choice. The Chinese government needs to recognize “the heinous crime against humanity” that it is inflicting on its women by invading their “most intimate part of [their] bod[ies]-physically, emotionally and spiritually” and implement laws to protect them and their babies from these callous procedures (Littlejohn). Fortunately, the recent abolishment of the one-child policy is a stepping stone towards change. The introduction of two-child policy, implemented on October 31, 2015, has allowed families to have two, however as seen from precedent anti-natalist policies, limiting population growth will always come with undesirable impediments. It will take more than the introduction of the two-child policy for Chinese women to heal the wounds that the one-child policy has “inscribed” into

In China there policy for birth control is a state policy and they must sustain it with no questions asked. The birth control system is a system that is assemble for punishment . The president of Women’s Rights without frontiers said “ Characterising this latest modifications abandoning the one-child policy misleading. Women are arrested if they refuse to have an abortion than it is is forced on them . The policy for China’s One Child Policy was made up on September 25, 1980.

First of all, China’s population law should be abolished because it is violating human rights. In the article China’s Child Policy it stated that “you have no decision in your own family.” This shows that China is only letting them have two children. China’s population law is violating human rights because it is not letting them choose how many children the parents have. The parents should choose how many children they want to have not the government.

For years, the One-Child Policy were unevenly and unfairly challenged the female’s reproductive right. During the One-Child Policy, with the limitation for only one child, in some cases, women feel that their reproductive organs are owned by the country, as they no longer have sovereignty over their bodies (Jaffery). Under the One-Child Policy, the Chinese government implement many methods to regulate fertility, including forced abortions on women who become pregnant with a second child, sterilization to prevent accidental pregnancies and the threat of heavy fine and unemployment. Some of the methods make women think they have no choice on how many babies they want and their fertility are remain under the control of the government. According

With technology of amniocentesis and ultrasounds readily accessible, the One Child Policy has created a society promoting sex-selective abortions. Fact. In 2000, 90% of aborted foetuses within China were female. Fact. Credible reports demonstrate the distorted gender ratio for new-borns throughout China, with 130 boys for every 100 girls. Fact. 2 million baby girls are aborted, murdered as infants, or left abandoned to die in China each year. Wanda Franz, president of the National Right to Life Committee, says, “Females are the direct victims” of

There is a time bomb that is ready to go off, possibly within our lifetime; this device is constructed not by terrorist but by an ever increasing world population. In an effort to combat its own population problem, China has promoted policies with the intent of slowing down the growth rate of that nation’s approximately 1.3 billion people. The population policies that are be-ing adopted raise fundamental issues concerning human rights. Does a government have the right to place limits on the size of the family through official policies? The answer to that question is No! The Peoples Republic of China’s adoption of a Two Child and its predecessor the One Child policy is a violation of basic human reproductive rights. Support of

In addition, during the time that the policy was in effect hundreds of millions Chinese were forced to pay fines that sometimes exceeded several years’ worth of income if they failed to conform to the policy’s strict restrictions, or had unauthorized children. Not only that but in order to enforce the policy, a quota reward system was implemented for Planning Officials by the Chinese government. Furthermore, if these quotas were not met, Planning Officials would be forced to either pay absurd fines or be stripped of any promotions they may have had as well as mark them as unable to receive any in the future. Worse still, the way these quotas were fulfilled was to “encourage” women to abort any unwanted children, usually by way of threatening their jobs, being fined a ridiculous amount, and not unusually with the possibility of physical harm. Despite all this, some women stood their ground, only to be restrained and arrested by officials, then subjected to forced abortions. These acts were not at all uncommon and an estimated 336 million forced abortions have taken place in China. This led to staggering suicide rates among women, with fifty-five percent of all women's suicides occurring in China, despite only having

There were exemptions for certain groups of people, for instance ethnic minorities (Cao 2009: 97), Hong Kong and Macau, and foreign people in China are exempted from the policy. The ethnic minorities accounted for around 8% of China’s population, which was approximately 105 million people. In rural areas, couples were allowed to have a second child if the first child was a girl or disabled, but the second birth had to be spaced by 5 years from the first birth (Gu 2007: 130; Greenhalgh 1986: 495-498). The policy was not applied evenly throughout the country, and it varied considerably in different areas (Short 1998: 373).

Current birth planning (jihua shengyu) program of People’s Republic of China, featured by the one-child-per-couple policy (the one child policy), has been one of the largest and most dramatic population-control campaigns in the world, receiving both praise and sharp evaluation over the past quarter of a century. It has been so successfully implemented in China that the nation’s population growth rate dropped significantly. This policy has been intensely criticized internationally for violating fundamental human rights evidenced by the forced sterilizations and abortions, and the widespread abandonment and neglect of baby girls. As the policy has recently been extended through new legislation as the nation’s demographic strategy in the future (Xin Hua News Agency 2001), we will highlight some of the significant challenges confronting Chinese families in the 21st century as the consequence of this policy. Social policies and programs often work differently from their proposed goals and implementation. An overdetermined view of policy shifts may attribute all changed behavior and outcomes directly to policy and program inputs. Multiple sets of variables and relationships may be needed to explain and account for both those outcomes that were anticipated and those that were not as expected. This review attempts to unbundle these concepts to suggest implications for policies and programs in future.

There are more urban dwellers in China than are found in either the United States or Russia. Some of the cities are quite large. Shanghai, for example, has more than 7 million people; Beijing has more than 6 million, and Tianjin more than 5 million. Many cities have more than 1 million people each.” (Compton's Living Encyclopedia) China's cities are expanding rapidly. The government is attempting to regulate urban growth in order to avoid such problems as congestion, overcrowding, slum development, and unemployment. China’s government is a People's Republic; the main organs of the government are under Communist party control. The head of state in China is the “Premier”. The population of China is and has been a strain on the countries resources; because of this the government has interjected itself into the people’s family planning. “China's family planning policy combines government guidance with the wishes of the masses.  The basic requirements of family planning are late marriages and late child-bearing, so as to have fewer, but healthier, babies, especially one child per couple.  But a flexible family planning policy is adopted for rural people and ethnic minorities; in rural areas, couples may have second baby in exceptional cases, but must wait several years after the birth of the first child.” Chinese people have the