Recently there was a focus on a family-planning policy in Myanmar while the more restrictive policy in China went largely ignored.
Brian Lee of All Girls Allowed tells OneNewsNow the policy zeros in on one population group in Myanmar.
"Myanmar has a two-child policy that restricts the Rohingya people, who are a Muslim people group, to two children," Lee explains.
A senior government official recently expressed support for the people, saying the one-child policy helps women who are very poor and uneducated, and who find it difficult to take care of their children.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, is located in Southeast Asia.
The president of the country visited the White House in May and met with President Obama, who expressed concern over violence in Myanmar directed at Muslim communities.
"And yet when President Obama met with President Xi Jinping of China," says Lee, "he had no condemnation about human rights despite the fact that China has had a one-child policy, which is more brutal and more ruthless, for over 30 years."
Lee says Myanmar's two-child policy, directed at a religious minority locked into poverty, is a clear human rights violation.
Yet the United Nations has remained silent over forced abortion and sterilization in China, and Obama did not mention it in direct talks with the government.
Lee stresses the world can no longer turn a blind eye to China's human rights practices.
Contact: Charlie Butts, Source: OneNewsNow.com
