Son preference and domestic regulations governing the practice, since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, legislations have been conventional honored to protect women and girls’ rights and interests. Notwithstanding the government has designed various programs that promote woman right, in line with national policies that forbid the practices. To protect the rights of women, China has ratified important international human rights conventions that protect the rights of children. According to Goonesekere (2006), it is explained that,
International policy documents adopted by consensus, such as the Declaration of the World Summit for Children (1990), …show more content…
To mitigate such act of occurrence, the national government uses international treaties to craft national legislations to enforce its policy or regulation. The China’s Beijing Women Conference in 1995 was a new journey, for the interaction with INGOs and the prevention of unlawful human rights practices in the PRC. Collaboratively with INGOs and national government, program targeting vulnerable women and girls have been a way of empowerment for equal justice, established prevents the China’s traditional son preference practice. Explained Li (2007),
Government regulations and policies against gender discrimination and sex-selective abortion, The Chinese government has also adopted a series of active regulations and policies against pre-natal sex determination and sex-selective abortion, in response to the rise in SRB. All organizations and individuals are strictly forbidden from performing non-medical foetal sex determination and sex-selective induced abortion (P. …show more content…
The major activities include several nationwide initiative: a youth volunteer programme; a programme under which journalists of national mass-media organizations travelled through Beijing, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan, Guangxi and Guizhou provinces, to advocate for the “Care for Girls” campaign and report on corresponding activities; nationwide competitions; and the publishing of a series of guidebooks for related trainings (Li, 2007, P.