Despite children forming
one-third of India's
population and continued
independent reports on
their neglected state,
programs that hope to
prevent and protect their
rights received a paltry
allocation of Rs. 90 crore
(USD 20 million).<More>
Gender Imbalance in
China
(January 16, 2007)
Thanks to its one-child
policy introduced in
1970s, the Chinese
Government acknowledged
that it in less than 30
million more men of
marriageable men than
women resulting from a
hard choice parents had
to make to prefer male
children.<More>
India Lost 10 Million Girls
(December 15, 2006)
A senior Indian official acknowledged a “national crisis” of parents in
richer states choosing boys over girls using technology to identify and
abort female fetuses resulting in the loss of 10 million girls in the last
20 years.<More>
Two Doctors Testing Fetal Sex Convicted
(March 30, 2006)>
For the first time, two doctors who tested the sex of
the child in the fetus of the mother have been
convicted for violating the Pre-Natal Diagnostic
Technique Regulation & Prevention of Misuse Act,
1994.<More>
Survey Finds Fall in Sex Ratio
(January 10, 2006)
A study published in the British medical journal "The
Lancet" says that 10 million fetuses may have been
aborted in India over the past 20 years because of
ultrasound sex screening.<More>
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