WRWF's Reggie Littlejohn Presents at European Parliament

 

Reggie Littlejohn with MEP Gay Mitchell and“It’s a Girl” Director Evan Grae-Davis at the European Parliament November 6. Photo courtesy of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers.
 
Brussels, November 6, 2012.  Women’s Rights Without Frontiers President Reggie Littlejohn co-presented the feature-length documentary, “It’s a Girl,” at the European Parliament, together with the film’s director, Evan Grae-Davis. Littlejohn is featured as an expert on China’s One Child Policy in this powerful new documentary exposing gendercide and forced abortion. The event, hosted by MEP Gay Mitchell packed the auditorium.
 
According to one UN expert, up to 200 million women are missing in the world today due to the sex-selective abortion of baby girls.  In China, moreover, the government forcibly aborts women who become pregnant in violation of the One Child Policy, up to the ninth month of pregnancy.
 
In response to a question about what the European Parliament can do to address this violence against women, Littlejohn raised the issue of the funding of UNFPA.
 
Littlejohn praised the European Parliament for recently passing a resolution that  “strongly condemns... the practice of forced abortions and sterilizations globally, especially in the context of the one-child policy.” The resolution further states that “the EU has provided, and still provides, funds for organizations involved in family planning policies in China,” and “urges the Commission to ensure that its funding of projects does not breach” the European Parliament’s commitment against coercive population control.
 
Littlejohn stated, “It is significant that the European Parliament has urged the Commission to ensure that this funding is not associated with coercion.  For decades, the UNFPA has worked hand in hand with the Chinese population control machine, which is coercive.  It is funded by many nations, not only in Europe but the world over, including the United States.  I have no doubt that any unbiased investigation by the European Parliament or any other governmental body will reveal that this organization is complicit with coercive family planning in China.”  Littlejohn states that these remarks are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the “It’s a Girl” filmmakers.
 
In addition, Women's Rights Without Frontiers just launched a campaign to end gendercide and forced abortion in China. Littlejohn said, “We are saving lives in China, one baby girl at a time.”  WRWF’s “Save a Girl” campaign has been adopted by the “It’s a Girl” film as its official Action Plan for China.  
 
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Check out how you can see the “It’s a Girl” film here.
 
 
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