September 17, 2021
(The Diplomat) – India, which has the oldest family planning program in the world, is a key stakeholder in various global commitments on the matter. However, it has not always been successful in moving the needle from family planning to … Read More
September 17, 2021
(Disability News Service) – Autistic campaigners are to protest outside a University of Cambridge autism research centre over a £3 million study they fear could be used to find a cure for autism, or even to attempt to eradicate it … Read More
July 21, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Chinese factories that supply Apple Inc. and Nike Inc. and make other products sold in the U.S. are shunning workers from Xinjiang, as Western countries increase scrutiny of forced labor from the remote northwestern region where … Read More
July 12, 2021
(WHO) – The recent application of tools, such as CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats; Cas9 nuclease), to edit the human genome with the intention of treating or preventing disease and the gaps in our scientific understanding, in addition … Read More
July 7, 2021
(Associated Press) – California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to some of the thousands of people — some as young as 13 — who were sterilized decades ago because the government deemed them unfit to have … Read More
June 25, 2021
(Associated Press) – China pressured Ukraine into withdrawing its support for a call for more scrutiny of human rights in China’s western region of Xinjiang by threatening to withhold Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccines destined for Ukraine unless it did so, diplomats … Read More
June 7, 2021
(Radio Free Asia) – Witnesses and experts testified about enforced disappearances, compulsory sterilization of women and forced contraception, organ harvesting, and torture in detainment by Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) on the final day of a … Read More
June 2, 2021
(Radio Free Asia) – A former victim of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s draconian “one-child” curbs has hit out at the government over a 180-degree policy shift that now seeks to encourage Chinese citizens to have up to three … Read More
June 1, 2021
(Associated Press) – China’s ruling Communist Party said Monday it will ease birth limits to allow all couples to have three children instead of two in hopes of slowing the rapid aging of its population, which is adding to strains … Read More
May 31, 2021
(Medical Xpress) – China will allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media said Monday, further unwinding four decades of strict family planning controls in the world’s most populous nation which … Read More
