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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

Brookings

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.

Aquino, Nguyễn Minh Triết join calls to free Aung Suu Kyi

    (TĐH note: Việt Nam domestic press says nothing about this call to free Aung Suu Kyi)

By Delon Porcalla (The Philippine Star) Updated October 28, 2010 12:00 AM

HANOI, Vietnam — President Aquino and his counterpart Nguyen Minh Triet have joined mounting calls for the junta-ruled Myanmar to release Aung San Suu Kyi in time for the country’s Nov. 7 national elections, the first for the last 20 years.

“We have been championing the cause of Madam Aung San Suu Kyi for a very, very long time. The basic premise is stability (in) one of the member states of the ASEAN… leads to the stability within ASEAN,” he told Manila-based reporters here.

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