female feticide

• February 26, 2018

HARYANA, India — In 2014, Breakthrough India, an independent human-rights organization, launched a program to tackle gender discrimination throughout 150 schools in Haryana, one of India’s most gender-biased states. A 2011 census showed that Haryana, a primarily agricultural state bordering Delhi in northern India, had the worst child-sex ratio in the country, with only …

Gender Violence, Human Rights, India, Poverty

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TOPIC: WOMEN

Six Asian Nations Lead in Seriously Skewed Sex Ratios at Birth

Joseph Chamie

• September 28, 2016

An unprecedented imbalance in sex ratios of more boys than girls being born is seriously underway in six Asian countries. As the imbalances spread across reproductive and marriageable age groups, the well-being of those Asian nations, which together represent nearly two-fifths of the world’s population, is threatened. The unusually high sex ratios at birth …

Asia, Health and Population, Women

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The Situation for Women and Girls Around the World? Stark.

Tendai Musakwa

• September 24, 2015

As the United Nations prepares to formally accept the new Sustainable Development Goals at midday at a summit meeting on Friday, here is a close look at one of the main resources that helped inform the long debate on creating the goals — the UN Development Program’s Human Development Report for 2014. What do …