Browsing Tag: Foeticide

The United Nations is sending its special envoy to India to investigate the rising cases of violence against women, four months after the fatal gang rape...

According to the latest official data, almost 35,000 children were reported missing in India in 2011 - and over 11,000 of them were from West Bengal. Police estimate that only about 30% of cases are actually reported.

Female infanticide and foeticide can be stopped through widespread awareness and national regulations. We must join hands, in more than just prayer, to save the missing girls of India and put an end to this genocide.

Abortion and multiculturalism, two of the most contentious areas of Canadian public policy, were placed on a collision course Monday by the country’s leading medical journal.

The spread of sex-selective abortion is often framed as a simple case of modern science being abused by patriarchal, misogynistic cultures. Patriarchy is certainly part of the story, but as Hvistendahl points out, the reality is more complicated — and more depressing.

India's child sex ratio has dropped from 927 to 914 girls per 1,000 boys according to Census 2011. To understand the problem, HT travels to districts in 4 states, each of which present a different scenario - either displaying remarkable improvement or decline from 2001

Make no mistake, India's future will not be brighter for having sunk to 914 girls per 1,000 boys. The daughter deficit will create a society that is much less stable and much more volatile than it would be with a more balanced ratio. The sustainability of peace and stability -- for India and the region -- will be progressively undermined in lockstep with the devaluation of India's daughters.

Surprising as it may sound but the girls have outnumbered boys in Pakistan. Despite the socio-cultural taboos associated with girl child like dowry, sexual abuse, weaker sex etc, the girl child were not aborted in certain areas of Pakistan like Southern Punjab and Khyber Pakhtonkhawa.

That was then, it is times today that scare me, the devaluation of social fabric scares me…. I would like to ask these ‘honorable men’ of the patriarchal set uu. . . Are our daughters children of lesser God?

It is not only the government but the society at large including socio-religious leaders will have to play an honest role to establish peace and prosperity over this planet to make it a livable haven. Dr Bains stressed that families, doctors, nurses and radiologists who indulge into illegal gender selection for female foeticide must be dealt with severely under strong laws so that the menace is wiped out sternly through social and legal applications.

My greatest challenge is to try and change mindsets. To keep working until female foeticide comes to an end.