This is a film about women who had to a book. About men who can no longer find a wife. And about girls who were kidnapped because of that. And about desperate parents. Almost two hundred Million Girls and women are missing globally today. How could it come to this and why do we know so little about us. Here have a look. Would you please read this please how. Office. Was. Clumsy as a province in southern china. Comes and oh man who lives in our parents who are searching for their daughter. Three year old punk shooting disappeared a month ago without a trace. A fast nobody believes 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 five days and nights he said she was gone. All that remains for the parents are the memories and baby photos from happier times. And shes so small here. She was so cute and so adorable. How could this happen. The rule. Do you and theres a lot of despairing parents he works for a relief organization. Through our china there are already two hundred thousand volunteers searching for missing girls such as puncture ting. Pearl or our kidnapping of little girls are not uncommon in china with the other day a sons marriage is expensive because the brides family expect expensive and gauge meant gifts or political for this reason all parents have to tell girls kidnapped you know that if they didnt raise the girls together with their son. 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 one hundred thirty five boys alone for every hundred 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 Two 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 due to 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 one man 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 foundations 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 is been examined by Matthew Connelly a historian at Columbia University in new york has researched in detail the development of this movement from its beginnings to its impacted 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 an 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 would have even more poor children. This way of thinking also too cold in american politics in one thousand nine hundred sixty six 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. The president spoke on the phone with his secretary of agriculture. Because he just got out this morning and he got to meet all the people at the grove the bears articulated a lot but if you want to know about we do exhibit a want to know what we get. The rest of the way over pretty big would be you. Know better i dont know. What else we get out of. Here to play. He 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 for population control was founded at the United Nations in one nine hundred sixty nine the un f. P. A. The United NationsPopulation Fund. Through that stance of neutral part of western governments channeled millions into population control in developing countries the major donors besides the United States with 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 high on the agenda. Is for korean women grew up in a village two hundred kilometers from seoul and still remember the war and the time that followed. Could it be years or 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 documents show that the time 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 that one familys family planners made having fewer children a citizens duty they were not interested in fighting poverty but only in preventing the poor from having babies. Were. Mobile clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as one nine hundred fifty six because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. Western family planners 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 one thousand nine hundred sixty four. 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 we are also inserting some in monkey you to write 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 knight 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 has increased 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 bigot being given money money from the United States from the United Nations from sweden from norway money to agree to start those ation or money to get other people to agree to sterilization 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. Sheldons ago visited one of these camps in one thousand nine hundred sixteen. He described it to his superior 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 one nine hundred seventy five the government of india again they forced eight million women and men to undergo sterilization. This dark chapter in Indian History became known as the emergency paring it. 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 it required taking some risks even if where 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 societies 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 they want a son and so they continue to have children until they have been mailed ascendant. The family planets recognize this preference for sons as the key to solving the population problem. People at places like the Population Council or the Ford Foundation they realize that parents of course societies in many cases prefer to have sons there what they began to think was if only they had some way of helping those parents determine whether the fetus was a female or male that 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 one nine hundred sixty seven. Men should Research Efforts leading to improve contraceptive technologies a practical methods of determining the sex of an unborn child so that parents could be assured of a son. In the early one nine hundred seventy 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 and his 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 one nine hundred seventy four 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 politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. In the following decades a massive surplus of men was created an angel 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 nineteen year olds and gina. Made out my mother and older sister died on two consecutive days i was six 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. Thats how we four kids grew up. Today he said you know lives with her brother shuttles family he is her protector and saved her life three years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. After dinner vanished shamsul sold everything travelled two thousand 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. Good. 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. In. Libya was. A woman claiming to be sitting as mother in or pulled out a marriage certificate. This rooted in women as particularly extreme in the northern indian state of how. Parents desperately seek wives for their sons the village elder eventually explained what had happened to the gina. That was all you need bought weve paid fifty or sixty thousand rupees as a down payment. That i can prove it thats what i love bill miller to tell you just give is a go were not leaving without her. Theyre going to its all legal you know they are the mother and i married her in front of eleven witnesses. The truth finally came out when the residents turned the girl over to police the entire village who collected money to buy something after a number of branches. She was married to one man and abused as a sex slave by seven others. This is one of the consequences of the severe lack of women. Such ina is no exception human traffickers comesa homes looking for girls. When they disappear hardly anyone goes looking for them the traffic as often acquaintances will nadirs. Seen as kidnapper still lives in her village. Nobody blames him she was labeled a whore and was forced to leave. Girls and women like city not suffer the consequences of population policies introduced and expedited by western family plan as fifty years ago in india. Pregnant woman thought that she would selectively goods and have only boys so this was created by those who ordered academic medical profession promoted by a Ford Foundation and a lot of other in jews who tried the whole project. I think it took thirty students but here in b. C. Generated. About five years there was a coop with over few hundred people who could barely whether its a boy or girl. Gynecologist put in a p. D. Was trained at the same hospital where sheldons ago carried out as for such. As a young student baby had a dramatic experience in the delivery room. The first night they went to the hospital i saw. St cat in the hospital it might surprise you which is not unusual common hospital susies stray dogs and cats getting go what looked like a mass of flesh or something running out of the liberal so i went inside and asked people what happened so one of them said we have to go over the place and order for you to deliver it so. Six seven month old peters was delivered and was just under the bed of the feet of the delivering woman so then i was told it is a project. Of Research Going on with somebody that i think people need and how to find order its a boy or a girl before but by doing everything she says its a good look. Was near what. Prenatal sex determination was the biggest breakthrough in population control. This way girls were aborted on mars and birth rates were reduced to fold she were babies were being born and fewer girls that could later bear children. And. Daughters are weeded out in china as well one and five boys presently born will later be able to find a much mothers a warrant they have a ties a countless marriage markets for best circumstance. And shanghai there is such a market every sunday in peoples park. Was the answer that im here for the second time today im looking for the right girl for my son. Wouldnt do it many people have come up to me we exchanged phone numbers and information. About the are much the mothers will now ask their daughters if theyre interested in my son. And there will talk on the phone. We parents help our children to establish contact lenses its a teaching is it. 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. U. S. President Richard Nixon and secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrived in beijing in one thousand nine hundred detail. It was a historic meeting with nazi dong to discuss the balance of power and a mutual commitment to world peace. There is no reason for us to be are its. Neither of us domination over the other. Neither of us seek to stretch out our. And will 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. 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. In the way of. Young Family Planning became a matter of state if anyone expected a second child. They face draconian punishments. The government used graffiti on building facades 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 first this only came from organizations like the Ford Foundation but in one nine hundred seventy nine even the United NationsPopulation Fund gave fifty Million Dollars to the Chinese Government. An employee of i. P. F. One of the donor 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 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 rights 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 had presided over the most egregious period in the entire history of the 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 un 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 at an 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 a good knowledge that then how is it 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. Here. That goes awards are given by the United Nations and back to. The two thirds it with the structures. At that time the United States was the most important member state contributing forty percent of the budget. Was the u. N. Population fund simply the puppet of its benefactors. Forty years after these population policy supported by the west over thirty million chinese men remain involuntary bachelors because of the shortage of women. This is why millions of unemployed men from rural areas move to the cities. Activist in yemen visits her parents have punctured team a little girl who disappeared but he doesnt have good news there are still no trace of their three year old daughter. Push it off until how am i doing. I dont know. His message as we never found blood anywhere i believe she is still alive. And i wait for signs of life every day im very worried. That. 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 middlemen 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 eight thousand dollars and for the bias the deal always pays. Soft. But they are herds of. Very young daughters a book as far as you know if a son doesnt like the bride after all or if the two dont make a good match then the parents can still marry the young girl off to another family of eight so after all they raised her as their own daughter in a way out of luck or a seat at the high bride price is often agreed upon. For lump of a human for them its worth it either way. Just with a little bit oscillating the. 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 nine hundred ninety s. And yet there has never been as many abortions of goes 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 mandia is growing and as expected educated indians one fewer children little has changed about the preference for sons especially in the upper class. I mean show was twenty five 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. A measure gave her inlaws an apartment. Having a son is like winning the lottery for some people in india. They wanted me to have a son or monday that 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. That i never knew what they had discussed with the doctor. If it was a girl the doctor would say j. Matter dean the holy god yes. That was their code word. Then they would know i was expecting a girl. But 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 six times in eight years. The word to me moody not only did my daughters die i died during all this too im dead inside. Really really good thing when i was pregnant with the daughter i have now they tried the same thing again the needle bought me 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 meagerly me. I mean she was lucky a lawyer for human rights took on a 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 six daltons. It has gone virtually unnoticed that fewer and fewer girls are being born. Today there is officially a shortage of one hundred and seventy seven million and the number of countries that are coming daughters is growing there are currently nineteen. 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 get half like truth and 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 ten thousand dollars to get one from viet nam. These women are usually about twenty years old and give birth to very lovely children. And there are many of these women living in our area who think that law we could i knew what. 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 all the population is drastically declining. Once again politics has intervened with drastic measures. Whereas young women sixty years ago were encouraged to have abortions now it is strongly from the point and criminally prosecuted to terminate a pregnancy. Leon n one she saw on two students from seoul recalled what they learned at school on the subject of abortion. Clark attorney paul we were taught about pregnancy and abortion in elementary school. And they still look they show us films about abortion and they say that the embryos neck is cast 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 to. Hear. The young women examine the subject of abortion for their masters thesis. Film was soon he directed the Womens Development institution sol for twenty five 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 their mission as children at all costs. Yeah. Yeah so i am well maria kokura 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 he said that. The south korean government has even gone so far as to publish a map of songs on the internet showing where women of childbearing age live. The darker the pink color the greater the selection for men seeking a wife. The Chinese Government has also noticed that a Society Without women will die out in the long run. A two child policy has been introduced in the hope of regaining a gender balance and solving the problem of an ageing population. The government is 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 thirty five u. S. Dollars in the thank you letter from the ministry of health and family welfare. Gynecologist pronate baby is familiar with the pressure on pregnant women. He too performs abortions but never when it is a master of the sex of the foetus. Hopes to be easy it is dr bailey doesnt think much of the new government programs. Give me wondering is that how it was as a woman she was pregnant who was there were about to school has been the day she was born she was told that shes because shes a woman and then she gets pregnant in a new home with seven other people are telling her you know you will lose everything if you produce a good how do you do. Both winning film. Or. Television sport no it doesnt work now 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. That foundations demand population reduction. Makes me nervous just as a nine hundred fifty s. And sixtys it was a rock star and Ford Foundation that issued marching orders to people all over the world it makes me nervous when i hear its the Gates Foundation now because of its money thats playing a part of a role in Global PublicHealth Service back in the native fiftys and sixtys you have leaders from all over the world agreeing their population growth was a crisis and agree that the United Nations had to implement crash programs it makes me nervous now when people talk about the crisis of Climate Change and how it is we might even have to engage in crash programs. Today africa as the main focus for population control the world bank and the un. Population fund a currently pumping millions into Family Planning on the second largest continent and a large American Corporation is supplying eight all to sound devices. As in china south korea and india people in most african countries prefer some. Ive. Signed but. Scientists recently discovered these reptiles have the recent markings. Now they think theyve found the key to how comedians communicate. Amongst is of chemical and the secret. To morrow to do it in thirty minutes on t. W. The me two movements and its impact on the arts. At the w. s global media. For culturally influential figures from three continents discuss conditions for female artists and change in cars from johns worldwide music my still me to to female beast culture today. In sixty minutes. Whats the connection between bread flour and the European Union dios guild motus t w correspondent and avid baker crap. Told. To spin a film about recipes for success strategies that make a difference. Baking bread. On g. W. Earth. Or saving googling to tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost Green Energy Solutions by global ideas be in by a series of global three thousand on t. W. And on line. Pakistan has freed the indian pilot captured when his plane was shot down of a pakistan administered kashmir. Walked across the border into india where he was welcomed as a hero pakistan says his release is an effort to deescalate tensions between the nuclear neighbors. Canada says it will allow the u. S. Extradition case against hallways chief executive to proceed