The Chinese government boasts that it has “prevented” 400 million lives through it
s One Child Policy. Meanwhile, experts have estimated that as many as 200 million women are missing in the world today because of gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of baby girls. This practice occurs not just in China, India, and other far-off lands. It is happening in the United States as well, even in California and Silicon Valley. Founder and President of WRWF Reggie Littlejohn has led a highly effective international advocacy campaign to raise awareness of violence against women in connection with the coercive enforcement of China’s One Child Policy. She has testified six times at the U.S. Congress and has three times briefed the European Parliament, twice the British Parliament, the Irish and Canadian Parliaments, as well as the White House, State Department and the Vatican. Her efforts were instrumental in laying the foundation for a resolution condemning forced abortion passed by the European Parliament in 2012, and an Agreed Conclusion against coercive birth control set forth by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2013. WRWF played the leading role in the international campaign to free famed and persecuted dissident Chen Guangcheng, and ever living the mission at home, Littlejohn is currently raising the daughters of the pro-democracy dissident Zhang Lin, who is being imprisoned in China without cause. To read the European Parliament resolution: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P7-TA-2012-0301&language=EN
To read the UN Agreed Conclusion: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/csw57/CSW57_Agreed_Conclusions_(CSW_report_excerpt).pdf
