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For more than 20 years, the government's family planning bureaucracy has been carrying out its coercive population control measure, ruthlessly wielding its power over the reproductive choices of every Chinese woman.

Columbia University researchers argue that China's low real exchange rate has been created by a skewed sex ratio with millions of men with little prospect for marriage.

Cathedral High School reviews a visit from All Girls Allowed.

Mitt Romney offers his view on the consequences of leaving China's rising political and economic power unchecked.

Kevin and guests discuss the tragedy of China's One-Child Policy.

A North American husband and father making a life for his family in China discusses the Abortion epidemic in the country.

Two Asheville school girls adopted from China worked with their fellow classmates and All Girls Allowed to raise money and help save the lives of baby girls in their homeland. 

The Weekly Standard takes a look at the circumstances of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as outlined in Chai Ling's recently published memoir, "A Heart for Freedom."

A brief review of Chai Ling's autobiography, "A Heart for Freedom"

Examiner.com takes a look at the extraordinary life story of Chai Ling as related in her recently published autobiography, "A Heart for Freedom."

Activist Chai Ling talks about China's controversial One-Child Policy and how All Girls Allowed aims to end gender discrimination in China through education and legal advocacy.

Wu Weiping is part of an increasingly defiant community of parents in China who have risked their jobs, savings, and physical safety to have a forbidden second child. 

In China, wealthy couples who are having difficulty conceiving are able to turn to illegal surrogate services, leading to a debate on whether the One-Child Policy is only directed towards couples in lower socioeconomic classes.

State committeewoman Cynthia Stead reminds us of the true meaning of Christmas and relates how AGA is fighting this Christmas to provide life, dignity, and value to the mothers and girls of China.

The "China Democracy Promotion Act of 2011" or HR 2121 would help to prevent the abuse of human rights and the persecution of religious groups and political dissidents.

Members of Congress held three days of hearings related to China’s one-child policy and the human rights abuses such as forced abortions and sterilizations that accompany it.

Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the U.S. for the second time in 2011 at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Hawaii. Will the leaders of this country continue to ignore human rights issues for the sake of "business"? 

Yancey Lu interviews Tiananmen Protest leader Chai Ling at a book signing for her autobiography "A Heart for Freedom."

Carol Crossed, Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum president, and Brian Lee, Executive Director of All Girls Allowed, compare Chai Ling's fight for the freedom of girls in China with the battle Susan B. Anthony fought for women's rights a hundred years ago.

Chai Ling, founder of All Girls Allowed, met with His Eminence Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino to discuss the gendercide taking place in China.

Chris Smith, chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China, discusses the plight of Chen Guangcheng, a blind human rights lawyer whose criticism of the one-child policy led him to be placed under house arrest and then imprisoned.

The BBC examines the history of population control and its effects on impoverished populations in India and China.

The case of Yue Yue, a two-year-old girl who was struck twice by vans while passersby did nothing, has prompted the Chinese government to discuss new legislation punishing Chinese citizens who do not help those in clear need. Chai Ling discusses the further implications of such legislation.

A group of 200 Indian women and girls whose names meant 'unwanted' took a stand against gender discrimination by participating in a name-changing ceremony south of Mumbai.

After thirty years of the one-child policy, a Chinese embassy estimates that China's attempts at population control have "prevented about 40 million births." Chai Ling discusses how the one-child policy has affected the morality of China.

Chai Ling, author of 'A Heart for Freedom' and one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square movement, discusses the Occupy Boston and Occupy Wall Street movements.

Chai Ling, a student leader at the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, shares more information about her humanitarian organization "All Girls Allowed" and the fight to end the One-Child Policy in China.

Based on her experiences as a student-leader at Tiananmen Square, AGA-founder Chai Ling discusses some key principles that might help Occupy Boston and Occupy Wall Street to succeed.

Boston's NPR news station interviews Chai Ling about her book, A Heart for Freedom, her continued work for All Girls Allowed, and her thoughts on the Occupy Boston movement.

The incident was captured on surveillance cameras

A Chinese woman finally tells her story of leading the protestors at Tiananmen Square and finding Jesus (Chai Ling)…

Each day in China, 35,000 baby girls are aborted and 500 women commit suicide. One freedom fighter won't take it any longer.

WASHINGTON — More than 20 years after Chinese troops crushed pro-democracy protests, a top Tiananmen Square student leader says the bloodshed was unavoidable as the communist leadership was set on using force.

My personal experience with China's One-Child Policy

This September marks the 31st year of China’s enforcement of the OneChild Policy – legislation that was never supposed to see past a three-decade mark.

Life's work for freedom now includes the next generation

Betsy Woodruff summarizes a Congressional Hearing about the 31st Anniversary of China's One-Child Policy.

As Friday marked the 31st anniversary of China's One-Child Policy, UF students rallied in Turlington Plaza to spread awareness of the gendercide of 37 million girls

WASHINGTON — Marking the 31st anniversary of China’s one-child policy, the U.S. House of Representatives held its first hearing since 2009 on the coercive population-control mandate.

This Sunday marks the 31st anniversary of China’s one-child policy. Created for the purpose of improving social, economic, and environmental problems in the country, it was supposed to end in 2010. 

IN almost any adoption, the new parents accept that their good fortune arises out of the hardship of the child’s first parents. The equation is usually tempered by the thought that the birth parents either are no longer alive or chose to give the child a better life than they could provide.

Chinese police rescued 89 infants kidnapped for sale and arrested 369 people they said were linked to two human trafficking rings this month, state media reported on Wednesday.

Chinese police say they have rescued 89 abducted children and arrested 369 people involved in human trafficking, in an apparent effort to calm public displeasure at the failure of government to stem a rising tide of child kidnappings.

Will the world’s next Octomom emerge from within China? The chances are increasing.

China's most populous province is trying to ease the country's decades old "one-child" policy, with officials saying the high cost of raising children is enough to hold down birth rates.

All Girls Allowed fights to end to gendercide and bring life value and dignity to women and girls of China.

The political, economic and social consequences of a preference for sons is alarming policymakers.

It's true: Western money and advice really did help fuel the explosion of sex selection in Asia.

The One-Child Policy has led to an imbalanced marriage market.  Field research shows that thousands of the girls are being trafficked as child-brides.

This year, while Chinese schoolchildren were enjoying a day free of homework along with state-sponsored festivities, human rights activists, demographers and Members of Congress gathered to denounce the dark side of China's "gendercide".

In 1995,Hillary Clinton proclaimed that “Women’s Rights are Human Rights.” In the same way, I believe that children’s rights are human rights, too.

Since the United Nations' population fund promotes China's one-child policy, critics say the global body is complicit in China's forced abortions and sterilizations

Director of Operations Jing Zhang speaks for AGA workers on the field who are harassed, for women forcibly sterilized, and for others persecuted through China's new crackdown

Census shows slowing growth as population ages, giving gritics ammunition.

China will maintain the strict family planning policy it imposed a generation ago to keep the birth rate low and the economy growing, President Hu Jintao said in remarks before new census data are released.

Days before China's latest census is set to be released, President Hu Jintao announced that his nation will continue its one-child policy.

The harsh logic of China's one-child policy is starting to unravel, and census data to be released on Thursday may well stoke debate whether the aging nation should relax restrictions.

The One Child Policy has started a ripple effect: the strict regulations coupled with strong cultural pressures to have a son have placed many Chinese women in a “rock and a hard place” scenario; suicide rates are up among women 18-35 years old, and young girls are being abandoned.

It is not just Western societies that are going grey. Developing countries are ageing even faster than developed societies, says a United Nations study. Taking care of the elderly is becoming a global problem, says reporter Danwei Zhang.

The surplus of boys and shortage of girls "made in China" could soon become not just a concern for China, but for the world.

In China, gender discrimination is widespread. Only a few women dare to sue employers for unfair hiring practices, dismissal on grounds of pregnancy or maternity leave, or sexual harassment.

Unmarried women, including teenagers, are now having a rising number of abortions, and even constitute a majority of cases in Shanghai and parts of Beijing, according to academic studies.

Xiao Mi, a 17-year-old high school student, waits for an abortion in a Beijing hospital that offers a "set menu" for teenagers seeking abortions. She is not the first one in her class to have one.

China legalized abortion in the 1950s, but it didn’t become common until the government began enforcing a one-child limit to stem population growth.

People who have violated the policy have been detained, beaten, fined and sacked from their jobs, and their children denied the permits required to access  services such as education.

Faced with a population of hundreds of millions of elderly retirees dependent on a shrinking number of young workers, China is in a desperate race to get rich before it gets old.

All Girls Allowed founder Chai Ling discusses the 35,000 abortions that happen daily in China because of the one-child policy.  The interview took place during President Hu's visit.

At a press conference today devoted to discussing China's abysmal human rights record, former Tiananmen Square student leader Chai Ling brought hope. 

“As we gather here today in the U.S. Capital, over 35,000 forced and coerced abortions are taking place in China,” testified Ling, now the founding president of the humanitarian non-profit All Girls Allowed.

Ling Chai Came to the U.S. to Avoid Imprisonment in China, Now She's Leading Fight Against 1-Child Policy

While comprehensive data are hard to come by, official figures show abortions are increasing, and Chinese media and experts say many of the abortion-seekers are young, single women.

The case in Yunnan Province shows how promotions and bonuses for local Communist Party cadres are linked to sterilization and abortion quotas.

Thirty years after it introduced some of the world’s most sweeping population-control measures, the Chinese government continues to use a variety of coercive family planning tactics.

“I don’t have a choice over my own body. If I don’t insert it [the intrauterine device], I’ll be detained,” wrote a woman on an internet forum for mothers.

Newborn twins were found dead at the gate of a textile market in Changning District on Wednesday afternoon, police said yesterday.

Chai Ling is no stranger to activism. She was a key leader in China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest and as a result ended up on the communist nation’s list of the 21 most-wanted students.

Twenty-one years ago, Chai Ling was a student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstration, speaking out against China's oppressive regime.

Relevant Magazine spoke to Chai Ling about China’s one-child policy, the driving force behind All Girls Allowed and how her experience with Tiananmen Square affected her life’s work.

A mother abandoned her newborn baby on the street in China -- because the little girl was blonde. The white-haired Chinese baby was discovered by a passer-by on a street corner in Nanning, Guangxi Province. The woman who found the child heard a cry and made the shocking discovery.

Liu and Song wanted to get married but could not as Liu was not old enough to legally wed. They had a traditional engagement ceremony and shortly thereafter learned that Liu was pregnant.  In China, that's the part of the story where things get ugly.

Thirty years on, some want to scrap the repressive policy. The problem may be to get people to have more—not fewer—babies.

Divorces last year were up 8.8 percent compared with 2008. Statistics from one Beijing district court last year showed the divorce rate among theunder-30s had doubled annually over the past five years, with 97 percent of the couples being only children.

"The right of giving birth is a minimum standard for women and the highest standard is that women participate in government and political affairs," said the vice chief editor of China Women's News.

ABC News discusses the current state of China's One-Child Policy.

Is China's one child policy effective? John Humphrys analyses whether the country should re-consider the policy in the current economic climate.

The first generation of only children in mainland China is approaching the age of 30. Looming ahead, as the Chinese society ages, are challenges of elder care falling on the shoulders of too few.

In an unprecedented crackdown, Chinese officials set out to sterilize 10,000 women — by jailing their relatives until the women submitted.

Zhou was repeatedly told by his new family, a large farming clan in Fujian, that his life would have been much worse had he never been sold to them.

A Chinese rights group is campaigning for the release of petitioners from psychiatric hospitals, where they are routinely detained in a bid to silence them.

$7,300: The going price for a young bride "in top condition."

Duan Yuelin and his mother talk about their business in their home in Changning. They bought children from the rural poor and sold them to foreigners.

Chai Ling was recently featured on BBC's World Outlook Radio Program.  She speaks about the "Daily Tiananmen Massacre that takes away lives every 2.5 seconds."  Tune in to listen to her call to rescue girls and mothers in China.

"Tomorrow, September 25, marks 30 years of the Chinese government’s infamous one-child-per-couple policy," said Congressman Chris Smith in a speech.

Human rights activists say President Obama should bring up a topic that is as important as it is underreported: the systematic destruction of girls in China.

On a grassy bank near the Wanquan River in the Haidian District of China, a passerby made a startling discovery on a Sunday morning in January:  an hours-old, abandoned baby boy. 

At least five of the "21 Most Wanted" list of the government of China after the massacre have turned to the Christian faith for answers.

Hundreds of senior citizens have been held captive in Chinese government offices as part of a campaign by family planning officials to force their children to submit to sterilisation.