Committee: The United Nations Entity

for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNWOMEN)

Country: People’s Republic of China
Agenda: Discussing Female Foeticide and Abortion Rights.”
Quoting a saying of our great leader, Mao Zedong “Women hold up half the sky”, the country
has always been an active advocate of women’s rights and gender equality in the world since
New China was founded in 1949. The country believes every Chinese woman should have the
opportunities to excel in life and make her dream come true, through which, they will also play a
greater part in the global women’s movement and make a greater contribution to gender equality
in the world. The reproductive rights of women adopted by the UN after the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is a baseline for the
reproductive and sexual rights provided by the Chinese government under Women’s Rights.
Abortion in China has been legal since 1979 and included in the constitution in 1982, and
although it is not a part of family planning policy in China, it is part of the family planning
services where number of abortions has reached more than 9.5 million as of 2017 in accordance
to the former 1 & 2 child policy which has been recently upgraded to three-child policy (2021).

The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth UN World

Conference on Women, Beijing in 1995 have produced great influence in promoting the gender
equality and women's development around the world. The creation of UNWOMEN in 2010
through resolution A/64/588 was a “historic step” in achieving gender equality, by “bringing
together resources and mandates for greater impact.” Public policies, regulations and laws
guaranteeing gender equality have curbed many overt gender discriminations in the public
sphere. However, the social atmosphere and the mindset of all the people don't seem to have
changed much. Like most Asian nations, China has a traditional bias for sons, who are seen the
only guarantee to pass on the family line. Abortion of female fetuses was widely practiced in the
19th century which is prevalent till today with approximately 11.9 million missing females
resulting in a sex ratio of a 116 in age groups less than 15, against a global average of 103-107.

This rising trend of induced abortions and sex-ratio has led to a disproportionate effect on the
size of China’s female population and an estimated four million to six million person labor
shortage each year during the 2020s. The Chinese government brought a recent change by
implementing three-child policy to mitigate with mentioned factors. Further efforts include; in
2000, the Chinese government began the “Care for Girls” Initiative; since 2005, China has
sponsored a “boys and girls are equal campaign”; in 2005, sex-selective abortion was made
illegal in China. In 2015, an additional campaign was launched against illegal prenatal gender
tests and sex-selective abortions. Furthermore, several levels of government have been modified
to protect the “political, economic, cultural, and social” rights of women. UNICEF and UNFPA
have partnered with the Chinese government and grassroots-level women's groups such as All
China Women's Federation to promote gender equality in policy and practice, as well engage
social campaigns to lower birth sex ratio and to reduce excess female child mortality rates.
China has played its role and pledged USD 10 million commitment to UN Women, assistance for
developing countries to build 100 health projects for women and children for the implementation
of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the realization of the related goals in the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is also a solemn pledge that the government has
made to the world in matters of women equality and empowerment.
The Chinese government feels the important solutions that must be addressed to reach a
breakthrough are:
 Despite the trend towards reforming abortion laws, some countries, maintain draconian and
discriminatory laws that still ban abortion in virtually all circumstances. In fact, according to
the WHO, across the globe 40% of women of childbearing age live in countries with highly
restrictive abortion laws, or where abortion is legal, is not available or accessible. Hence,
easy accessibility of safe abortion services should be a key priority in such countries.
 Effective state mechanism and prohibitory laws should be developed and implemented to
promote gender equality and prevent sex-selective abortions all over the world.
 Women should be given the right and opportunity to participate in decision making and
management, which can ultimately lead to a reduced ignorance regarding unsafe abortion
practices and foeticide.
 Unwanted pregnancies are easily avoidable by use of contraceptives. Hence, the role of
awareness and contraception in this issue must be acknowledged and implemented in rural
and ground level.
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Working Paper 1.0
Committee: The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UNWOMEN)
Authors: French Republic, People’s Republic of China, United States of America
Signatories: Kingdom of Denmark, The Swiss confederation, The republic of Korea, Kingdom
of Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Republic of Estonia, Italian
republic repubblica italiana, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Republic of Cuba, United Mexican
States, The Republic of Turkey
Recognizing the committee for discussion on the agenda “Female Foeticide and Abortion rights”
Seeking co-operation from pro-abortion countries such as China, France, USA, Estonia, Italy,
UK, Vietnam, Sweden, Denmark, for assistance
Expecting the states to provide easily accessible health facilities in matters of reproductive and
sexual health through approaches like;
 safety and protection oriented short, timely and legal access to abortion is guaranteed to
women in both law and practice;
 Re-defining legal grounds for abortion in countries worldwide so that they are more
inclined to Women’s rights of reproductive and sexual health;
o Life Exceptions
o Health Exceptions
o Broad Social or Economic Grounds
o On Request
o Rape and Incest Exceptions
o Fetal Viability and Impairments
 recognize the need for basic education to be provided about sex, consequences of
unwanted pregnancies to students starting from junior high school;
 qualitative contraception are to be easily accessible and free of cost at community
healthcare centers, family planning centers to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
Working Paper 1.0
Committee: The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UNWOMEN)
Authors: French Republic, People’s Republic of China, United States of America
Signatories: Kingdom of Denmark, The Swiss confederation, The republic of Korea, Kingdom
of Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Republic of Estonia, Italian
republic repubblica italiana, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Republic of Cuba, United Mexican
States, The Republic of Turkey

Realizing the general pattern of how various cultures over the world
Redifining good cultural tradition to strength women'position.
the government should establish sufficient hospitals and skilled health workers to ensure every
women citizen of nation gets access of safe abortion.
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the government should establish sufficient hospitals and skilled health workers to ensure every
women citizen of nation gets access of safe abortion.-turkey
The delegate would like all the countries to formulate laws and its strict implementation, and
media being one of the source of awareness relating to this problem and build an equal
environment.- Bahamas
determination of gender before baby born should be prohibited and same goes for sex selective
abortion-denmark
emphasizing in spreading awareness and providing education facilities to everyone around the
countryemphasizes in spreading awareness and providing education facilities to everyone around
the country- Burundi
If abortion stays illegal only then the problem like female foeticide won't arise-colombia

Dowry india Pakistan

Islamic nations ma women lai ekdam suppress gareko huda
Our laws should include efforts to involve women as well as men in problem dentification and
management ot only in paper, but in practice.
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marriage, divorce, property in marriage, inheritance, etc.;
should include consideration of the gender aspects of the employment re-structuring and
re-training required such as maternal leaves in the new system

While the specific nature of gender relations varies among societies, the general pattern is that
women have less personal autonomy, fewer resources at their
disposal, and limited influence over the decision-making processes in theirown lives.