Countries: China
Variables: WAM-PRACTICE-1

"Shuang Zheng, 31, considered to be a megastar actress back in her homeland after starring in the TV series Meteor Shower, denies abusing her two children born via surrogates in Colorado" (par. 2). "Coupled with [Shuang Zheng] surrogacy scandal, she has been listed among 'actors with poor conduct' by Chinese state regulators and has therefore been blacklisted and banned from making public appearances with all existing public activities relating to her entertainment career being forced to cancel" (par. 22).

Countries: China
Variables: CUST-PRACTICE-1

"However, two months before the births of their children, the couple had broken up. Zhang later revealed that his ex-partner wanted to abort their kids despite his offer to raise them as a single father" (par. 6).

Countries: China
Variables: ACR-PRACTICE-1

"Surrogacy is forbidden in China but traveling abroad to have surrogate children has increasingly become an option for some Chinese couples, especially wealthy ones" (par. 5). "'I told her I understand because you are a celebrity you don't want anyone to know you have a surrogation baby in the United States,' [Heng Zhang] said" (par. 7).

Countries: China
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"Zheng's former husband, Heng Zhang, one of China's most famous reality TV producers, says she wanted to abort the children following their split while their two surrogate mothers were still expecting. He also says the children were physically abused while in Zheng's care" (par. 3). "However, two months before the births of their children, the couple had broken up. Zhang later revealed that his ex-partner wanted to abort their kids despite his offer to raise them as a single father" (par. 6). "The clinic also confirmed Zheng's request to terminate the pregnancies at the seventh-month mark, which was denied" (par. 11).

Countries: China
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-3

"After two years in detention, a Chinese journalist who spoke up against sexual harassment stood trial on subversion charges on Friday along with a labor rights activist, the latest example of Beijing’s intensified crackdown on civil society. Huang Xueqin, an independent journalist who was once a prominent voice in China’s #MeToo movement, and her friend Wang Jianbing, the activist, were taken away by the police in September 2021 and later charged with inciting subversion of state power. Their trial was held at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court in southern China. Little is known about the government’s case, but the vaguely worded offense with which the two were charged has long...more

Countries: China
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"After two years in detention, a Chinese journalist who spoke up against sexual harassment stood trial on subversion charges on Friday along with a labor rights activist, the latest example of Beijing’s intensified crackdown on civil society. Huang Xueqin, an independent journalist who was once a prominent voice in China’s #MeToo movement, and her friend Wang Jianbing, the activist, were taken away by the police in September 2021 and later charged with inciting subversion of state power. Their trial was held at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court in southern China. Little is known about the government’s case, but the vaguely worded offense with which the two were charged has long...more

Countries: China
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2

"When she created a social media platform for reporting sexual harassment. She organized and published surveys that found it to be rampant in universities and workplaces. A champion of women’s right to speak out about harassment, Ms. Huang also described having been subjected to it herself by a colleague" (para 6). "When the police in Guangzhou took her away in 2021, it was not for the first time. She had been detained in 2019 after writing about and participating in anti-government protests in Hong Kong. At that time, Ms. Huang wrote a handwritten account of her detention, titled 'Being a journalist is not a crime'" (para 7). "‘Sophia Huang Xueqin...more

Countries: China
Variables: DTCP-PRACTICE-1

"Amnesty International said Ms. Huang was believed to have been subjected to mistreatment in detention and that her health had deteriorated drastically" (para 18).

Countries: Brunei, China, Guinea-Bissau, North Korea, Serbia, Somalia, South Africa, Vietnam, Yemen
Variables: IRP-SCALE-1

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Countries: China
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

"It was unclear how many Hmong women have moved to China to marry Chinese men in recent years. But Lao government officials and one person who works for an NGO said the practice has become commonplace in the country’s north, particularly in Luang Prabang and Oudomxay provinces. 'I just saw this happen earlier this year,' a resident of Xayabury province’s Hongsa district told RFA. 'A middleman who works for Chinese men came here to negotiate with parents of Hmong women. When the parents said yes, he did all the paperwork according to regulations and laws on marriage'" (para 16-17).

Countries: China
Variables: AFE-DATA-1

"[R]ecord-high numbers of Chinese women attend college" (para 15).

Countries: China
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

"Many face domestic violence and an uphill battle in pursuing a divorce in court. In 2021 the government made it even harder for women to seek divorce, imposing a mandatory cooling-off period for feuding couples" (para 12).

Countries: China
Variables: BR-PRACTICE-2

"Now many young Chinese women are doing exactly that, delaying or shunning marriage and childbirth altogether, mirroring the journey of women in other, wealthier patriarchal East Asian societies such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan" (para 6).

Countries: China
Variables: GIC-LAW-1

"In the late 1970s, the government imposed its one-child policy to rein in population growth. But this led to plummeting birthrates, an aging population and a gender imbalance as millions of female fetuses were aborted because of a traditional preference for male heirs. (As of 2020, China still had about 17.5 million more men than women between the ages of 20 and 40, which government media has warned could pose a threat to social stability.) Worried, the government abandoned the one-child policy beginning in 2016, allowing all married couples to have two children and raising that to three in 2021" (para 8).

Countries: China
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"Mr. Xi’s government has waged a broad crackdown on civil society organizations, making overt feminism dangerous. Huang Xueqin, a leading feminist activist and journalist who helped start China’s #MeToo movement by creating a social media platform for reporting sexual harassment in 2018, was put on trial in September on vague charges of subversion, after two years in detention. No verdict has been announced" (para 13). "The Communist Party has dug in, identifying Western feminism as an unpatriotic threat to its population-planning objectives and an example of hostile foreign ideological infiltration. Censorship of feminist topics online has intensified, as has misogynistic state propaganda. But as record-high numbers of Chinese women attend...more