Ethnic Minority Rights
This article describes family planning activities in Tujia and Miao Nationality Autonomous Regions in Guizhou Province. The reporter describes family planning personnel visiting households that have produced out-of-plan births, collecting fines, and "educating the masses" by publicizing the Family Planning Law. A photograph of minority villagers and family planning personnel organizing a "joint court" in a stockade outside the village accompanies the article.
The article illustrates that birth control policies are in fact being implemented in minority areas, as specified under Article 18 of the 2001 Population and Family Planning Law.
The following text was retrieved from the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Ethnicity and Religion Web site on December 3, 2012.
The following is a translation prepared by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China of the "People's Republic of China Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law," issued by the Second Session of the Sixth National People’s Congress on May 31, 1984 (effective October 1, 1984) and amended in accordance with the “Decision on Revising the People’s Republic of China Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law” made at the 12th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People’s Congress on February 28, 2001. The Chinese text was retrieved from the Law-Lib's Web site on February 14, 2006.