Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

Abortion causing huge gender imbalance in Vietnam, UN admits

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:24 EST

VIETNAM, December 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After decades of involvement in coercive population control measures, including abortion, contraception, and sterilization of women, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is admitting that policies it has championed are causing a serious imbalance in the ratio of male to female births in Vietnam.

In a series of public statements that began in June of this year, the UNFPA notes that “Vietnamese parents’ long-standing preference for sons, increased access to sex selection technology and declining fertility rates, which have increased pressure on smaller families to fulfill their wish for a son, are the main causes for the rapid changes in Viet Nam’s sex ratio at birth in favor of males.”

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We Are Witnessing An Arab People’s Revolution

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January 28, 2011 —

We are in the midst of a brave new world.

The uprisings raging from Tunisia to Egypt to Yemen are heralding a new Arab, post-Islamist revolution.