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Tag: Sterilization (Reproductive)

World

Hundreds of Capybaras ‘Conquered’ This Town. Now What?

April 17, 2025April 17, 2025Jack Nicas and Anita Pouchard SerraComments Off on Hundreds of Capybaras ‘Conquered’ This Town. Now What?

The world’s largest rodent is multiplying in — and dividing — one of Argentina’s most exclusive gated communities.

World

Transgender Ruling Is Step Forward for L.G.B.T.Q. Rights in Japan

October 25, 2023Hikari Hida and Motoko RichComments Off on Transgender Ruling Is Step Forward for L.G.B.T.Q. Rights in Japan

The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a legal clause requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization to legally change their gender identity.

World

China Wants More Babies. Some Men Choose Vasectomies.

June 1, 2021June 1, 2021SUI-LEE WEE and ELSIE CHENComments Off on China Wants More Babies. Some Men Choose Vasectomies.

As the Chinese government tries to increase the country’s falling birthrate, some millennials are striving for a lifestyle commonly known as “Double Income, No Kids.”

World

In Xinjiang, China Targets Muslim Women in Push to Suppress Births

May 10, 2021May 12, 2021AMY QINComments Off on In Xinjiang, China Targets Muslim Women in Push to Suppress Births

In most of China, women are being urged to have more babies to shore up a falling birthrate. But in Xinjiang, they are being forced to have fewer.

World

U.S. Says China’s Repression of Uighurs Is ‘Genocide’

January 19, 2021January 20, 2021EDWARD WONG and CHRIS BUCKLEYComments Off on U.S. Says China’s Repression of Uighurs Is ‘Genocide’

The finding by the Trump administration is the strongest denunciation by any government of China’s actions and follows a Biden campaign statement with the same declaration.

World

Japan to Compensate Forcibly Sterilized Patients, Decades After the Fact

April 25, 2019MOTOKO RICH and MAKIKO INOUEComments Off on Japan to Compensate Forcibly Sterilized Patients, Decades After the Fact

Under a eugenics law repealed in 1996, thousands of Japanese were sterilized because of intellectual disabilities, mental illness or genetic disorders.

Headlines

Protests in Tanzania as Voters Head to the Polls

October 29, 2025Matthew Mpoke Bigg

Life Lessons from (Very Old) Bowhead Whales

October 29, 2025CARL ZIMMER

Putin Announces Test of Tsunami-Making Nuclear Weapon

October 29, 2025Nataliya Vasilyeva

U.S. Middle East Envoy Presses Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah

October 29, 2025Euan Ward and Adam Rasgon

U.S. Says It Will Cut Troops in Eastern Europe

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025Lynsey Chutel

Feted as a Peacemaker in South Korea, Trump Vows to End Hostilities With North Korea

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025Erica L. Green, Katie Rogers and Choe Sang-Hun

As China and U.S. Split Over Energy, Korea Is Stuck in the Middle

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025Somini Sengupta and Grace Moon

Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill at Least 100, Local Health Officials Say

October 29, 2025October 29, 2025LIAM STACK

Street Battles Rage in Ukrainian City After Russian Troops Enter Stronghold

October 29, 2025Constant Méheut and Olha Konovalova

Trump Has Likened Himself to a King. South Korea Gave Him a Crown.

October 29, 2025Yan Zhuang
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