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Vanishing Girls
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Abandoned Indian mother exposes the harmful practice of sex-selective abortion
Being a woman can bring life-threatening challenges to those living in South Asia – from before birth all the way into adulthood. Bhavana*, a young mother in Dhanbad, Jharkhand is familiar with such discrimination.
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Save India’s “Vanishing Girls”: UN urged to act as fetal femicide increases by 60%
In India and other parts of the world, girls are targeted for abuse and discrimination, from before birth and throughout their lives.
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India: 17.3 million girls not born due to sex-selective abortion
In India, girls are aborted every day simply because they are not boys. Tomorrow is the International Day of the Girl Child, which was introduced to help focus on the status of girls in society…
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