- Female infanticide is the act of deliberately killing bay girls
- Determining the sex of unborn babies is illegal in India
- Financial reasons are often behind female foeticide
- An estimated 500,000 female fetuses are aborted every year, according to the Lancet journal
- ActionAid says the law to determine the sex of an unborn child is not being enforced, and that not enough was being done to change the culture favouring boys
- The UN estimates that 2,000 female foetuses are being aborted every day
Saturday 12 January 2013
The 'genocide' of India's daughters
The fate of female children in India:
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