Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages - Softcover

Human Rights Watch/Asia

 
9781564321633: Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1564321630 ISBN 13: 9781564321633
Publisher: Human Rights Watch, 1995

Review

China's claim to guarantee the "Right to Subsistence" conceals a secret world of starvation, disease, and unnatural death. A world into which thousands of Chinese citizens disappear each year. The victims are not the political and religious dissidents, they are orphans and abandoned children in custodial institutions run by China's Ministry of Civil Affairs. Death By Default: A Policy Of Fatal Neglect In China's State Orphanages documents the pattern of cruelty, abuse, and malign neglect which has dominated child welfare work in China since the early 1950s, and which now constitutes one of the country's gravest human rights problems. Many institutions (including some in major cities) appear to be operating as little more than assembly lines for the elimination of unwanted orphans, with an annual turnover of admissions and deaths far exceeding the number of beds available. Death By Default is a long needed expose on a severe humanitarian crisis afflicting the Chinese populace. -- Midwest Book Review

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Publisher
Human Rights Watch
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1564321630
ISBN 13 
9781564321633
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
394
Editor
Munro Robin, Rigsby Jeff

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