Call for China to release barefoot lawyer.MORE THAN 100 LEADERS in the fields of human rights, bioethics bioethics, in philosophy, a branch of ethics concerned with issues surrounding health care and the biological sciences. These issues include the morality of abortion, euthanasia, in vitro fertilization, and organ transplants (see transplantation, medical). , reproductive health and religion from more than 30 countries and six continents have protested the treatment and trial of Chen Guangcheng. In a letter, coordinated by Catholics for a Free Choice Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is a pro-choice political organization whose founders hold the belief that "the Catholic tradition supports a woman's moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health. and signed by individuals who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of social justice, human rights, ethics and morality, they asked the authorities "to immediately begin investigative procedures into and launch legal supervision of the severe violations of the human rights of Chen Guangcheng." Chen, a lawyer and human rights defender Human rights defender is a term used to describe people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights. Human rights defenders (HRDs) are those women and men who act peacefully for the promotion and protection of those rights. , became subject to harassment, arbitrary detention and other human rights violations last year after exposing a large-scale population planning campaign that both violated the Population and Family Planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China is the legal regime of the People's Republic of China, with the separate legal traditions and systems of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao. and included coercive and forceful actions such as imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. , assault and non-voluntary sterilization and abortion in Linyi city, Shandong province. In August, he was sentenced to four years, three months imprisonment in a trial that excluded his own lawyers from participation. "This action against Chen is surprising in light of China's recent improvements in law and practice, which call for non-coercive reproductive health services," said Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice and the leader of an interfaith delegation that traveled to China in 2003 to investigate its family planning practices. "It demonstrates governmental ambivalence in implementing these policies. International pressure--especially from those supportive of reproductive health--is essential to building Chinese resolve to respect the human rights of women regarding reproduction." |
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