Editing Compulsory sterilization (section)

==== Xinjiang ====
Beginning in 2019, reports of forced sterilization in [[Xinjiang]] began to surface.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Stavrou|first=David|date=17 October 2019|title=A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside|work=[[Haaretz]]|url=https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-a-million-people-are-jailed-at-china-s-gulags-i-escaped-here-s-what-goes-on-inside-1.7994216|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Handley|first=Erin|date=23 September 2019|title='Deeply disturbing' footage surfaces of blindfolded Uyghurs at train station in Xinjiang|work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-23/video-uyghurs-shaved-blindfolded-xinjiang-train-station-china/11537628|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Fifield|first=Anna|date=28 November 2019|title=TikTok's owner is helping China's campaign of repression in Xinjiang, report finds|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tiktoks-owner-is-helping-chinas-campaign-of-repression-in-xinjiang-report-finds/2019/11/28/98e8d9e4-119f-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html|access-date=}}</ref> In 2020, public reporting continued to indicate that large-scale compulsory sterilization was being carried out.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web|date=2020-06-29|title=China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization|url=https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c|access-date=2020-07-01|website=Associated Press}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite web|title=Pompeo calls report of forced sterilisation of Uighurs 'shocking'|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/pompeo-calls-shocking-report-forced-sterilisation-uighurs-200629215350131.html|access-date=2020-08-11|website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref> While national sterilization rates have fallen since the passing of the two child policy in 2016, there has been a sharp increase in the amount of sterilizations in Xinjiang.<ref name=":19">{{Cite web|date=2020-07-21|title=Uyghur Genocide Shows Urgency of Combating Neo-Malthusianism|url=https://www.cato.org/blog/uyghur-genocide-shows-urgency-combatting-neo-malthusianism|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Cato Institute|language=en}}</ref> Many of these surgeries have been forced according to reports, but this is difficult to confirm due to the closed off nature of the area.<ref name=":19" />  These measures have sometimes been characterised as part of an ongoing [[Persecution of Uyghurs in China|Uyghur genocide]] in the province.