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Economic and Social Council Fills Vacancies in 20 Subsidiary Bodies, Adopts Decisions on Themes, For 2012 Substantive Season, ECOSOC/6508
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China was elected to the Executive Board of the UN Children's Fund. The State Department report on China and human rights includes: "The government restricted the rights of parents to choose the number of children they have...[I]ntense pressure to meet birth-limitation targets set by government regulations resulted in instances of local family-planning officials' using physical coercion to meet government goals. Such practices included the mandatory use of birth control and the abortion of unauthorized pregnancies. In the case of families that already had two children, one parent was often pressured to undergo sterilization."