Mar 24, 2009 / 22:55 pm
The United Nations Population Fund stands to receive $50 million in funding from President Obama’s Omnibus spending bill, but the Population Research Institute is reporting that a recently completed investigation in three Chinese counties shows that contrary to UNFPA claims, China’s one-child policy is actively being enforced.
Following a Population Research Institute (PRI) investigation of the UNFPA’s involvement in helping enforce China’s one-child policy in 2001, President George W. Bush decided to redirect $34 million from UNFPA’s family-planning programs and instead fund programs emphasizing child survival and anti-trafficking efforts.
Under former President Bush, the UNFPA was denied $235 million in funds but within weeks of President Obama taking office, $50 million was set aside for the previously implicated fund.
The UNFPA claims that it has played a role in turning the enforcement of China’s one-child policy into a "quality of care approach" that removes birth targets and quotas.
Seeking to verify the UNFPA’s assertion, PRI launched an on-the-ground investigation in three Chinese counties that the United Nations fund considers to be models for its claim.