Browsing Tag: Female foeticide

The Three Deadliest Words

The film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters’ lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son. Global experts and grassroots activists put the stories in context and advocate different paths towards change, while collectively lamenting the lack of any truly effective action against this injustice.
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Marriages may soon need 'no-dowry' undertaking

The report, therefore, recommended to the ministries to find ways and means to regulate high expenses for the wedding ceremony. "The evil of dowry is one of the vital causes leading to low status of girl child in the society. Unfortunately, the practice of dowry is still prevalent. The committee is unhappy that this law enacted in 1961 has been unable to check the evil of dowry in the society."
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Charity aims to halt daughter abortions

A Cheshire businessman has set up a charity which aims to prevent families in India aborting girls. Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal became involved when he visited the Indian village where he was born and noticed most children in a school class were boys.
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State’s (Punjab) sex ratio looks up

The sex ratio in Punjab is beginning to look up as 83 panchayats in the state have achieved a sex ratio of 1,000 girls for the same number of boys. These panchayats are a small fraction of the over 12,000 villages in the state, but the Department of Health and Family Welfare has encouraged the panchayats by giving them a reward of Rs 1.5 lakh each.
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How fruit trees in Indian village save girls' lives

"This is our way of meeting the challenges of dowry, global warming and female foeticide. There has not been a single incident yet of female foeticide or dowry death in our village," he says.
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Local mothers divulge secrets to daughters

The mothers and daughters sit close. They lock eyes and you can see how they are bound together — by genes and family history. The mothers are telling stories their girls have never heard, stories that explain how they came to be the women they are today, and the bottomless wells of love they have for their daughters.
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Every Time We've Had Our Babies, People Have Almost ... Commiserated

its embarrassing reading the Toronto Star today when an under cover investigation found Kanwar “Sunny” Bains, editor at Ajit Weekly, offering up some magical pills that would influence the sex of an unborn child.
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The Daughter Deficit

Economic development seemes to have not only failed to help many Indian girls but to have made things worse.
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Sex ratio shows positive change

The Annual Report on Registration of Births and Deaths in Delhi 2008 that was released on Tuesday reinforced the city government's claims of a drastic improvement in the capital's sex ratio at birth from 848 females per 1,000 males in 2007 to 1,004 in 2008.
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Harsimrat calls for timely initiatives against female feticide and environmental pollution

the initiative started at the golden temple to give away sampling as 'Buta Parshad' to newly wedded, expecting women and parents of newly born daughter, is launched for three days here at Gurudwara Fatehgarh Sahib.
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