Diffrnce in female infanticide and foeticide Oct 2012 article http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-loses-3-million-girls-in-infanticide/article3981575.ece Latest : june 2013 http://digitaljournal.com/article/353738 Rural/urban : http://lawquestinternational.com/alarming-sex-ratio-and-problem-female-foeticide-and-infanticide-india India and china http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/medical/infanticide_1.shtml Website on infanticide >> https://sites.google.com/a/mtholyoke.edu/female-foeticide/artifact-3
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Female Foeticide In India India is a country of incredible ironies. It is a land where people worship myriad forms of female Shakti in quest of wealth‚ wisdom and power. In this country it is a common sight to see thousands of couples making arduous journeys every year to shrines of goddesses in order to be blessed with a child. But strangely enough‚ in this country‚ a couple is said to be ‘blessed’ only when it has a male child; for a girl is never considered a blessing in our society. Her birth
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W7000 – WRITING SKILLS My research topic is on Female Circumcision‚ otherwise known as Female Genital Mutilation (FMG). Female Genital Mutilation is a procedure that involves intentional alteration or cutting of female genital organs for non- medical reasons‚ from age infant to 10 years and older depending on the community. Studies have shown that this practice does not have any health benefit to any female‚ but rather it causes damages. FGM practice is recognized as a violation of human rights
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Female Foeticide In India‚ welfare measures like empowerment of women‚ reservation in Parliament‚ free education to girl child and a lot of other woman progressive initiative‚ do not make sense when we look at cases of female foeticide. There are only 933 females for every 1000 males against global figure of 1060 females per 1000 males. Sex ratio is a composite indicator of woman’s status in a society. If we analyse state wise sex ratio‚ it is most disturbing to note that the States like
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FEMALE EDUCATION Intrcduction: Education means mental and moral training. It is the light that clears off the darkness of ignorance from our mental horizon. It open wide to our vision the vastness of God’s creation and enables us to think about the merciful creator of this universe. It is a blessing. It ensures a perfect and harmonious development of our innate qualities and makes us worthy of the name `Ashraful Makhlukat’ Education should be universal: Education is a light to which everybody
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Female feticide is one of the biggest challenges that India is facing today in terms of gender. It has become a significant social phenomenon. It transcends all barriers of caste‚ class and community and even the north-south dichotomy. The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap report for the year 2007 has shown India at a dismal 120th position. The gender gap report looks at the disparities in terms of health‚ education‚ economic status and political participation between men and women
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story of the three little Pigs? Do you think that the story is just a kid’s fairy tale? Well‚ think again‚ because “The Story of the Three Little Pigs” actually has lessons and morals in it that adults can use in everyday life. In fact‚ some of the characters are relatable and make you feel emotion for them. Take the Third Little Pig for example. He had to outsmart the Big Bad Wolf to stay alive. Even though the other two pigs could not stand a chance the Third Little Pig did. He was able to because
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International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences Vol 1 Issue 1 January 2006 Female Foeticide and Infanticide in India: An Analysis of Crimes against Girl Children Sneh Lata Tandon1 and Renu Sharma2 University of Delhi‚ Delhi‚ India Abstract Sex selective abortions and increase in the number of female infanticide cases have become a significant social phenomenon in several parts of India. It transcends all castes‚ class and communities and even the North South dichotomy. The girl children become
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The issues that affects both females and male prisoners are pretty common across the board. Prisons all have three things in common: they are overcrowded‚ underfunded‚ and unfocused. Both woman and male prisons are overcrowded due to the growing crime rate in America. Therefore‚ many prisons have different practices and levels. There are three particular types which are maximums‚ mediums‚ and minimums. Maximum prisons are the most secured prisons‚ they have both exterior and interior security. One
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Female foeticide. “Spend five hundred rupees now save five lakhs later “ -Slogan of ultrasound sex-determination clinics. Since the advent of ultrasound and detection technique for sex-determination 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India‚ according to a study conducted recently in India‚ the first systematic study on female foeticide by an Indo-Canadian team. A shocking picture emerges-every year‚ about 50‚000 unborn girls-one in every
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