This is a film about women who had to a book. About men who could no longer find a wife. And about girls who were kidnapped because of out. And about desperate parents. Almost 200000000 girls and women are missing globally today. How could it come to this and why do we know so little about us. On the top you have a local. Would you please read this please help us. Come she is a province in southern china. And dont know who lives and our parents who are searching for their daughter. 3 year old punk shooting disappeared a month ago without a trace. At 1st nobody believed that something terrible could have occurred in this peaceful village where everyone knows each other. But the search for her has remained fruitless. Wow me we look for her for days. We searched every corner yet day and night the only 5 days and nights he said she was gone. All that remains for the parents are the memories and baby photos from happier times. To their. And she so small here. She was so cute and so adorable. How could this happen. Oh your. Do your nerves a lot of despairing parents he works for a Relief Organization through our china there are already 200000 volunteers searching for missing girls such as passenger ting. Her regularly her kidnapping of little girls are not uncommon in china with the other a sons marriage is expensive because the brides family expect expensive engagement gifts or political for this reason parents have bittle girls kidnapped so they didnt raise the girls together with their son all and when theyve reached adult hood they are married to one another so they are shields up. There is a shortage of millions of women in the worlds most populous country 135 boys alone for every 100 girls in some provinces in china. This is the result of an experiment that started decades ago on the other side of the world. In the usa after world war 2 it was the era of the economic miracle people in the west were doing better than ever before if not for the fear that their prosperity could soon come to an end. A big concern was constantly growing populations changing medical advances especially and developing countries. Affluent americans started a new Movement Together they wanted to curb the large numbers of children worldwide. Most of them were men from well known scientists to the super rich like john d. Rockefeller but. They were people with influence and connections to the highest levels of the american government. That from day sion is still continue to exist today the Ford Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation the Population Council. They triggered a rising tide of fear of a population explosion that soon also spread to other countries and they formed the head of worldwide measures taken to decimate the population of the impoverished this has been examined by Matthew Connelly a historian at Columbia University in new york he has researched in detail the development of this movement from its beginnings to its impact of a. Population council saw its mandate not just to control the rate of population growth but also to address problems in the quality of population so they had a explicit mandate to try to do something about the growth of the fertility rates among people who they thought you know would eventually take over the world if something wasnt done to reduce fertility rates across the board but especially among people who they thought would be poor parents and would have even more poor children. This way of thinking also took hold in american politics in 1966 u. S. President lyndon b. Johnson attached conditions for receiving Development Aid one of them being that recipient countries must reduce their population. It was a time of drought and starvation and india. And. The president spoke on the phone with his secretary of agriculture. But abbott morning got to get all the people of the crowd the bare legged creature out but if you want to. Exhibit a want to know what we. Already have a very badly wake up call the 1st big would be you out. Of nowhere right off a bit of a hot day off to get out because. Youre going to. Be stopped food deliveries until indian president Indira Gandhi bowed to the demands. Accusations were made that the west had imperialist intentions with its population control projects. As apartments of population control was founded at the United Nations in 1969 the un expiate innovative nations Population Fund. Through this stance oblique neutral part of western governments channeled millions into population control in developing countries the major donors to cite the United States sweden Great Britain germany and switzerland of. South korea was among the earliest testing grounds for population control. The country was devastated after the korean war at the same time there was a baby boom with the highest birth rates in the world the United States participated in the reconstruction from the very beginning population control was highly agenda. Is for korean women to grow up in a village 200 kilometers from seoul and still remember the war and the time that followed. Could it be as the government said we should have fewer children and thats why we stuck to it. We women had abortions we thought we were doing the right thing and we did it voluntarily. Western countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted into mobile medical units document show that their task was not Health Promotion the Population Council an American Foundation expressed a clear cut mission to the Korean Ministry of health. These vehicles are given. To help improve Living Standards in korea through a vigorous attack on the problem of excessive population growth. Instead of letting citizens plan their own families family planners made having fewer children a sentence and. They were not interested in fighting poverty but only in preventing the poor from having babies. Were. Most clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as 956 because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. Western family planets flooded the country. One of the pioneers was the american doctor sheldon cigar. He founded an apartment for reproductive medicine and one of the largest state hospitals in new delhi and trained indian medical students. Although early versions of i. E. D. s had fallen into disrepute in the west cigar smuggled them into india in 1964. He declared them as Christmas Decorations at customs and had them inserted into the usual right of women without the knowledge of the government. In a letter he wrote. The present approach is to distribute the ones i have on hand to private gynecologists were also inserting some in monkey utah right my feeling is that in the long run it may be faster to quietly accumulate evidence from the sources before trying to press for wider distribution in government Family Planning clinics i do not want to raise the question with Health Minister dr najat if the answer is likely to be negative because we would very be in a precarious position if we pursue. Human studies at all. It didnt take long for the Indian Government to give the green light the United States agency for International Development even sent nonsterile interview trying to vices to india. Serious complications often arose sometimes with fatal consequences. Despite this the family plan is increase the pressure and the Indian Government cooperators basic quotas for sterilizations an i. E. D. Insertion paying doctors and Health Workers premiums. Poor an education women were the main targets the bait money in exchange for their fertility. So you have the system where people at every level or beget being given money money from the United States from the United Nations from sweden from norway money to agree to start as asian or money to get other people to agree to start as they should even if in some cases that eventually bad rounding them up and trucking them to camps where they were sometimes sterilized under the most appalling circumstances. Sheldon seagal visited one of these camps in 1916. He described it to his aperient i spent sunday at a womens there realization camp and found it fascinating after the surgeon sows up the abdomen the ladies get off the operating table by themselves and walk out of the operating theater. The situation in india spun out of control in 1975 the government of india again they forced 8000000 women and men to undergo sterilization. This dark chapter in Indian History became known as the emergency period. The idea of population control what was so seductive to National Leaders people like Indira Gandhi was the idea that they could achieve maturity in one generation and they could do it with crash programs even if we require taking some risks even if for some people were going to get hurt this was something that was going to make india a modern nation and was going to improve everyones welfare in the long run what they didnt understand was that in many rural societies these children were their parents only source of security in all these right and not only that but in poor society is even children in many cases are able to support themselves and help their parents even from a relatively young age. But there is another reason as to why people in asia have many children and want a son and so they continue to have children until they have been mailed ascendant. The family planets recognise this preference for sons as the key to solving the population problem. People or places like the Population Council or the Ford Foundation they realize that parents and poor societies in many cases prefer to have sons that what they began to think was if only they had some way of helping those parents determine whether the fetus was a female or a bell then they might along with abortion they might have a quicker way of reducing fertility rates. The head of the Population Council laid down a clear course in 1967. Men should Research Efforts leading to improve contraceptive technologies a practical method of determining the sex of an unborn child so that parents could be assured of a son. In the early 1970 s. The time had finally come scientists developed a curry on it will have some playing on c. D. s with this method a child sex could be identified before birth. Abortion was forbidden in almost all developing countries sheldon cigar minus colleagues used their connections to the highest ranks of the u. S. Government and with great success. Henry kissinger was u. S. President gerald ford secretary of state at the time. In the 1974 document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive d. Population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. No country has reduced its population Growth Without resorting to abortion. While women in the United States were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies American Foundations and politician. What pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. In the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are only present in india today. Once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low Socio Economic standing. Like 19 year olds and gina. My mother and older sister died on 2 consecutive days i was 6 months old at the time. Then my father contracted polio and my grandmother raised me. My father went out to beg and we lived off what he brought back. And told us about. Thats how we 4 kids grow up. Today said ina lives with her brother shanshu his family he is her protector and saved her life 3 years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. After seguin a vanished shantel sold Everything Travel 2000 kilometers to new delhi and reported her disappearance to the Aid Organisation of Nobel Laureate kyle are such a hearty. That. Some men offered my sister work she declined after that she disappeared. She was able to get hold of her phone and call me when she wasnt being watched she was crying and begged me to get her out of there i went there and saw her. Blood was coming out of her eyes and her face had been cut. Coming from a lower caste shamsul was not able to accomplish anything on his own. The police turned him away several times but after pressure from the Aid Organization they finally went to the village where seguin it was being held. A woman claiming to be sitting as mother in or pulled out a marriage certificate. The shortage of women is particularly extreme in the northern india state of how. Parents desperately seek wives for their sons the village elder eventually explained what had happened to the jena. That a lot of young i thought it was only if we bought we paid 50 or 60000. 00 rupees as a down payment. That i can prove it not that i will be home alone to tell you just give us a go were not leaving without her. Theyre going to its all legal you know that if you die at the mother and i married her in front of 11 witnesses. The truth finally came out when the residents turned the girl over to police the entire village and collected money to buy seguin after a number of branches. She was married to one man and abused as a sex slave by 7 others. This is one of the consequences of the severe lack of women. Such ina is no exception human traffickers come the slums looking for girls. When they disappear hardly anyone goes looking for them the traffic is often equated on a thats. So genius kidnapper still lives in her village. Nobody blames him where she was labeled a whore and was forced to leave home. Girls and women like city not suffer the consequences of population policies introduced and expedited by western family plan as 50 years ago in india. No pregnant woman thought that she could selectively goods that had only boys so this was created by both awkward academic medical profession promoted by 4 polish and a lot of other in jews who tried to get the whole budget. I think they took 30 students per year it would be a fugitive so at about 5 years there was a corpus over a few 100 people who could barely whether its a boy or girl. Gynecologist put a baby was trained at the same hospital where sheldons a gown carried out as research. As a young student baby had a dramatic experience in the delivery room. The 1st night better into the hospital i saw. Street cat in the hospital it might surprise you which is not an unusual Little Common hospital scene stray dogs that go getting go what looks like a flash or something out. Of the liberal so i went inside to ask people what happened so one of them said we hope theyre going to have a place and the feeders delivered so. 67 month old fetus was delivered in just under the bed of the feet of the delivering woman who then i was told it was a project the Research Going on somebody that i think people in it and hope to find daughter was a boy or girl before birth by doing every sentences but if its a girl of course been me about. Prenatal sex determination was the biggest breakthrough in population control. This way girls were aborted on mars and birth rates were reduced to fault she were babies were being born and few were girls that could later their children. And. Daughters are weeded out in china as well one and 5 boys presently born will later be able to find a much mother someone that they have a ties that countless marriage markets for their supplies something. And shanghai there is such a market every sunday in peoples park. Was the answer im here for the 2nd time today im looking for the right girl for my son. So. Many people have come up to me. We exchanged phone numbers and information. About how the mothers will now ask their daughters if theyre interested in my son. And then well talk on the phone. We parents help our children to establish contact lenses thats a teaching assistant. These are mothers who only have one son because they were committed to only have one child this was the chinese strategy for population control. Us president Richard Nixon and secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrived in beijing in 1982 it was a historic meeting with nazi dont discuss the balance of power and a mutual commitment to world peace. There is no reason for us to be i mean. Neither of us domination over the other. Neither of us big to stretch out our hand. And lead the world. But the americans were worried about the growth of chinese power and the spread of communism and the fact that chinese population growth seemed unstoppable. Nixons visit opened the floodgates for west and found planets. The Chinese Government had a sympathetic the a for them. To. Mass excess paying introduced the one child policy. Millions were trained as lay Health Workers the socalled barefoot doctors. Their mission distributing contraceptives all over the country and ensuring that couples only had one child. They have to kill Family Planning became a matter of state if anyone expected a 2nd child they faced draconian punishments. The government used graffiti on building for santa to warn people to turn the line you can beat it out you can kill it you just cannot give birth to it. In spite of media reports of for sterilization of oceans the west continued to donate money to the chinese Population Program at 1st as only came from organizations like the Ford Foundation but in 1979 even the United NationsPopulation Fund gave 50000000. 00 to the Chinese Government. An employee of i p f one of the turn organizations sounded the alarm when. I think that in the not too distant future this will blow up into a major press story as it contains all the ingredients of sensationalism communism forced Family Planning murder of viable fetuses parallels with india etc and when it does blow up its going to be very difficult to defend. But the warnings were not only ignored the u. N. Population fund also presented china with an award for outstanding contributions regarding Birth Control who they choose to give it to you it wasnt a reproductive rights advocates you know it wasnt to people whose lives were risk because or trying to campaign to get people and especially women the right only control their own bodies it was just the opposite they decided to honor the leader of chinas course of population control program a chinese general. You know who presided over the most egregious period in the entire history of that program and they chose to honor Indira Gandhi who was responsible for what until then was the worst Population Program of all the emergency Period Program in india. Is the u. N. Population fund facing up to this dark chapter of its past. But what is almost never discussed is the history of that program and how it is had a early stage the u. N. Population fund was deeply involved in incredibly of course a program and if we can get the u. N. Population fund to acknowledge that then how is that theyre going to get people to trust them to do the right thing now and in the future. Why did the u. N. Population fund financially support countries that forced people to be sterilized and have abortions. Need to be very clear a lot of good out there here. That goes awards are given by the United Nations for them but its. Got 2 thirds it with data structures. At that time the United States was the most important member state contributing 40 percent of the budget. Was the u. N. Population fund simply the puppet of its benefactors. 40 years after these population policy supported by the west over 30000000 chinese men remain in voluntary bachelors because of the shortage of women. This is why millions of unemployed men from rural areas move to the cities. Activist in yemen because its the parents of punk shooting a little girl who disappeared but he doesnt have good news there are still no trace of their 3 year old daughter. And. Put it up until how am i doing. I dont know. Is as we never found blood anywhere i believe she is still alive. I wait for signs of life every day im very worried. And. The girls are often abducted by someone from the village before the child reaches the person who contracted to have a taken she will have passed through many hands from the kidnapper to middle men from the village to the city and from there often to another province. With each transaction the price goes up ultimately the product go costs roughly 8000. 00 and for the buyers the deal always pays. Off. Of their herds of. Very young daughters a book they are unsure of if a son doesnt like the bride after all or if the 2 dont make a good match then the parents can still marry the young girl off to another family because of a sort after all they raised her as their own daughter in a way lara stayed at the high bride price is often agreed upon you know for the lump of a human for them avoided its worth it either way. Just as a lowly give up is oscillating. Statistics in india show the higher the surplus of men the higher the crime right and the number of Violent Crimes against women. The Indian Government has since reacted and outlawed sex determination and the ending 990 s. And yet they have never been as many abortions of go as today because with Ultrasound Technology sex determination has become cheap and safe. Despite the ban its only a question of money to find a doctor who is willing to break the law and reveal the gender of the unborn child. The middle class in india is growing and as expected educated indians want fewer children. Little has changed about the preference for sons especially in the upper class. I mean sure was 25 years old when she married a computer scientist. Her father in law was a high ranking government employee. In india the bride must pay the grooms family a dowry. I mean she gave her inlaws an apartment. Having a son is like winning the lottery for some people in india. You know were lucky they wanted me to have a son one month it had to be a boy. Give me a son an heir for the clan. I mean i was kept completely in the dark. And. They said to come see the doctor so i did. I never knew what they had discussed with the doctor. If it was a girl the doctor would say j matter dean the holy goddess. That was their code word. Then they would know i was expecting a girl with them and the doctor then gave me an injection in my belly and when i woke up with the baby my belly was gone they did that 6 times in 8 years. Then went to me with not only did my daughters die i died during all this too im dead inside. Really really good thing when i was pregnant with a daughter i have now they tried the same thing again. But i got sick and went to my mothers. They wanted to pick me up and take me to the doctor. But i refused to go. I mean she was lucky a lawyer for human rights took on her case. He had her inlaws put in jail for a short time and negotiate a settlement. But he couldnt help her get over the loss of her 60 options. It is gone virtually unnoticed that fewer and fewer girls are being born. Today there is officially a shortage of 177000000 and the number of countries that are coming daughters is growing there are currently 19. As in china and india the lack of women of marriageable age in south korea has now become a problem. Just like in china and india the lack of women of marriageable age in south korea has now become a problem. Youll be happy like through with yes there are too few women here so the farmers cant find wives. And they look for one somewhere else they say it costs around 10000. 00 to get one from viet nam. These women are usually about 20 years old and give birth to very lovely children. And there are many of these women living in our area who think that little we could buy new like. A lucrative business as a merged around women as a commodity. That which is missing in ones own market after decades of selective abortion is simply imported from poor and neighboring countries. But south korea faces another problem nowadays many south korean women do not want to have children as will the population is drastically declining. Once again politics has intervened with drastic measures. Whereas young women 60 years ago were encouraged to have abortions now it is strongly frowned upon and criminally prosecuted to terminate a pregnancy. Leon and one she song to students from seoul recalled what they learned at school on the subject of abortion. What are the tonic that we were taught about pregnancy and abortion in elementary school. Night stomach shows films about abortion and they say that the embryos neck is cut in the uterus and then the whole embryo is cut up and disposed of. Thats how they explain abortion and they say abortion is murder this is whats taught in school and what stuck in our minds. We are only able to view abortions as something terrible. The young women examine the subject of abortion for their masters thesis. You know soon he directed the Womens Development institute in seoul for 25 years as an advisor to the students. The students tracked down dubious agencies. That arbitrate illegal abortions for large sums of money. Once again women are the victims of population policy. Illegal abortions bear great health risks. But the south korean government holds on to the ban on abortion. Today they mention as children at all costs. Young and warmer it koku or what was the government after back then when they allowed abortions or. Did they want to support womens rights. But today we can see that it wasnt about that it was about population control they were using womens bodies as a Political Tool that was the solution and. The south korean government has even gone so far as to publish a map of seoul on the internet showing why women of childbearing age live. The darker the pink color the greater the selection for mammal seeking a wife. The Chinese Government has also noticed that a Society Without women will die out in the long run. A to child policy has been introduced in the hope of regaining a gender balance and solving the problem of an ageing population. The government has again resorting to advertisements on building facades this time it is for daughters and therefore potential future mothers. No girls means no daughters in law. The government in india is also backpedaling. It also wants to motivate people to give birth to daughters there is one Information Campaign after another. Once again the Indian Government is offering incentives anyone giving birth to a daughter receives 35. 00 u. S. Dollars in the thank you letter from the ministry of health and family welfare. Gynecologist baby is familiar with the pressure on pregnant women. He too performs abortions but never when it is a matter of the sex of the fetus is supposed to be easy to prove is dr beatty doesnt think much of the new government programs. Give me one reason how it was as good as a woman she was pregnant who was there walk to school when the day she was born she was told that she is because you were woman and then she got pregnant in a new home with 7 of the people are telling her every day that you know you know. If you produce a girl. Or you dont. Or. Television spot no it doesnt work no the ultimate solution is of course that people start. Respecting girls more than boys. They wanted to protect the world from a population explosion but they waged war on the poor not on poverty. Had they supported education and the Economic Security of women birth rates would have gone down on their own. Instead they forced through contraception sterilization and abortion. Now history is repeating itself the u. N. Population fund still uses 60 percent of its aid for Family Planning and once again private foundations demand population reduction. Makes me nervous so just as a nation fiftys and sixtys it was a rockefeller and Ford Foundation that issued marching orders to people all over the world it makes me nervous when i hear its the Gates Foundation because of its money thats playing a part or a role in Global Public health so when you know when back in the native fiftys and sixtys you had leaders from all over the world agreeing their population growth was a crisis right and agree that the United Nations had to crash programs it makes me nervous now when people talk about the crisis of Climate Change and have. That is why you would have to engage in crash programs. Today africa is the main focus for population control the world bank and the u. N. Population fund a currently pumping millions into Family Planning on the 2nd largest continent and a large American Corporation is supplying meat for sound devices. As in china south korea and india people in most african countries prefer some. Kill africa do you guys hear anything. Look at that. Man i didnt hear it lets get going. Not only stickin guys can hardly makes a sound and environmental projects with sustainable energy. And money how does he love. In 30 minutes w. World war. What secrets lie behind these wars. Find out in an immersive experience and explore a fascinating world Cultural Heritage sites. A d w World Heritage 360 to feel. The quiet melody result was my the light of the moon. And it zoom really believes resonate within its soul. The mind and amusing. Beethoven 1st bond 29 team from some. Number 6 to september 29th. This is the w. 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