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CHINA - EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION ON EU-CHINA RELATIONS - CONCERN ON FORCED ABORTIONS, FORCED STERILISATIONS +

 

FULL RESOLUTION - 14 March 2013

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA-2013-0097+0+DOC+XML+V0//en&language=en

 

http://www.chinaaid.org/2013/04/european-parliament-resolution-of-14.html

 

European Parliament Resolution of 14 March 2013 on EU-China relations (2012/2137(INI))

 

Concerns on China Forced Abortions, Forced Sterilisations, Parent Fines for Extra Births, One-Child Policy


16.  Emphasises that, although forced abortions are strictly illegal in China, family-planning officials repeatedly coerce women into inhumane practices such as forced abortions or sterilisation; condemns the so-called ‘social maintenance fee’, an often-exorbitant fine that parents have to pay in the event of extra births, as was the case in the tragedy of Feng Jianmei; points out that official statistics show that in 2011 there were 8 400 complaints from victims about misconduct by family-planning authorities; wholeheartedly supports Chinese voices calling for an end to the one-child policy, with its many loopholes, particularly in the light of demographic trends in China, while stressing its severe negative social and psychological consequences such as social disparities, a worsening gender equality situation, widespread negative feeling about the birth of a female child and the still-growing imbalance between baby boys and girls, which is disrupting the traditional family structure and, moreover, reducing the intake of young people in the labour market; calls on the Chinese leadership to consider it a top priority to find a solution to this problem;

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For more information on Forced Abortions in China, see website of Women's Rights Without Frontiers: http://www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org/

 

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