China Forced Marriages

The tragic story has sparked outrage on social media in China and ignited a debate about marriage and women rights.

The Chinese government incentivised and forced inter-ethnic marriages that have been occurring in the Uyghur region since 2014, according to a report by a Washington-based advocacy group.

Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands.China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to the decades-long one-child policy.

A desperate Chinese mother has published a letter on the front page of a Melbourne newspaper asking her son to come home for the Lunar New Year after her attempts to force him into marriage had scared him away.

The tragic story has sparked outrage on social media in China and ignited a debate about marriage and women rights.

The Chinese government incentivised and forced inter-ethnic marriages that have been occurring in the Uyghur region since 2014, according to a report by a Washington-based advocacy group.

Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands.China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to the decades-long one-child policy.

A desperate Chinese mother has published a letter on the front page of a Melbourne newspaper asking her son to come home for the Lunar New Year after her attempts to force him into marriage had scared him away.