However, HRIC believes that owing to restrictions on information, failure to prosecute buyers of women, corruption and indifference among local officials and lack of services to victims the Chinese government has thus far failed in its responsibility to eliminate this modern slave trade. HRIC believes that discrimination against girls is tacitly accepted as part of the population control policy, and that in pursuit of demographic targets, the Chinese government has failed to prevent abuses of the fundamental rights of female children. The serious and disproportionate effects on women's health of late-term abortions, birth control surgeries at inappropriate times, in unsanitary conditions, or without proper rest afterwards and of lack of choice of contraceptive methods are incalculable. HRIC believes the Chinese government has failed to act to redress the disproportionate burden of the population control policies falling on women or to halt the use of violence in the implementation of these policies. Millions of migrant and rural women workers suffer terrible working conditions, which violate Chinese laws, in silence.
Women increasingly work in the less paid, less valued sectors of the economy.
The lack of services or supports for victims has meant that women trying to escape such abuse often have nowhere to turn. HRIC believes that the Chinese government must do more to recognize this form of human rights abuse and must lift controls on the activities of independent groups which can advocate for abused women and girls. Furthermore, prisoners of conscience in Tibet and detained for religious dissent have reported an alarming incidence of sexual assault. If the Chinese government is serious about protecting women's human rights HRIC believes it must allow them to become their own advocates and lift controls on information to allow exposure and discussion of the abuses they face. That women's status has changed greatly since the 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China is indisputable.