Team finds that abortions, sterilizations are official policy in China

Flap over China's 1-child policy stirs: Population fund's foes warn of coercion
Matthew Purple
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The local UNFPA official operated out of the Office of Family Planning in Sihui, the investigators said.

"It is inconceivable that the U.N. population official who worked in the same office did not know what was going on," Mr. Mosher said.

Other investigations, however, have come to different conclusions.

The State Department sent three ambassadors to China in 2002 to investigate whether forced abortions and sterilizations had occurred.

The team's findings contradicted those of PRI. The ambassadors reported that the Chinese government used coercive population control, but said they found no evidence that the UNFPA had any involvement. A British investigation produced the same result. the rest