Gift Or Curse For Girls In India ?

[Indian Tiger]

Typical digressing from you on my evil is better than yours.......the highlighted part is actually a link to the poll on the plight of women around the Globe. Just to put your mind to rest, following is an extract from the survey.


POLL - Afghanistan is most dangerous country for women | Reuters

I think in the article you have pasted, you have failed to read the below lines.Anyway for your Information.

Pakistan ranked third largely on the basis of cultural, tribal and religious practices harmful to women. These include acid attacks, child and forced marriage and punishment or retribution by stoning or other physical abuse.

"Pakistan has some of the highest rates of dowry murder, so-called honour killings and early marriage," said Divya Bajpai, reproductive health advisor at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.

Some 1,000 women and girls die in honour killings annually, according to Pakistan's Human Rights Commission.

 

[Big Boss]

What a silly thread this type of threads are only good for trolls and intention of thread starter are well known.

 

[Windjammer]

I think in the article you have pasted, you have failed to read the below lines.Anyway for your Information.

What, no comments on the main article.?...I guess no surprise there. !!.. however on the contrary, the following is also mentioned in your selective topic.

India ranked fourth primarily due to female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking.

In 2009, India's then-Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta estimated that 100 million people, mostly women and girls, were involved in trafficking in India that year.

"The practice is common but lucrative so it goes untouched by government and police," said Cristi Hegranes, founder of the Global Press institute, which trains women in developing countries to be journalists.

India's Central Bureau of Investigation estimated that in 2009 about 90 percent of trafficking took place within the country and that there were some 3 million prostitutes, of which about 40 percent were children.

In addition to sex slavery, other forms of trafficking include forced labour and forced marriage, according to a U.S. State Department report on trafficking in 2010. The report also found slow progress in criminal prosecutions of traffickers.

Up to 50 million girls are thought to be "missing" over the past century due to female infanticide and foeticide, the U.N. Population Fund says.

Some experts said the world's largest democracy was relatively forthcoming about describing its problems, possibly casting it in a darker light than if other countries were equally transparent about trafficking

 

[gubbi]

The problem exists no doubt but in the backwardrd communities, we have some laws in place and am sure things are getting better.

The problem has more to do with well-off middle class society than the backward communities. These nuevo-rich middleclass with their money can afford to illicitly know the gender of the foetus AND have it aborted (illegally ofcourse) if its not to their wish.

This sucks. Sadly, laws cannot bring about a change in such thinking, but better education and awareness. But then given the mentality of people in the sub-continent, a change in thinking would take atleast a couple of generations.

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What, no comments on the main article.?...I guess no surprise there. !!.. however on the contrary, the following is also mentioned in your selective topic.

Lets just stick to female foeticide. You dont want hypocrisy plastered all over these threads yet again.

 

[EndoClock]

All those poor babies got killed. The Indian culture is very vile in this regard.