The problem of female foeticide or sex selection in India is acute in India. The invention of technology i.e. ultrasonography for pre-natal sex determination in 1980s replaced intentional killing of infant girls with sex selective abortion of female foetuses. Since 1990s various studies recognised female infanticide as a serious problem with reduction of women in […]
This report chronicles as to how the United Nations Human Rights Council considered the issue of female foeticide in India under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India’s human rights record during the third cycle of the UPR held in May 2017. In its National report, the Government of India raised the issue and that […]
Female foeticide/infanticide has been one of the features of the India’s patrilineal society. Child Sex Ratio (CSR) i.e. the number of girls per 1,000 boys in the age group 0-6 years has reached alarming proportion in India. According to 2011 Census, Haryana recorded CSR of 834 girls per 1000 boys. The sex ratio in Haryana […]
Maharashtra has been at the forefront of the leading initiatives against female foeticide. It was the first State in India to enact a law to protect the female foetus by enacting the Maharashtra Regulation of Use of PreNatal Diagnostic Techniques Act in 1987, much before the enactment of the Prevention of Misuse of Pre-Natal Diagnostic […]
India is infamous for female foeticide and female infanticide, the crudest forms of gender based violence. The Child Sex Ratio (CSR) defined as the number of females per 1000 males in the age group 0-6 years had come down alarmingly to 939 as per 2011 census from 961 in 2001 in undivied Andhra Pradesh indicating […]
Female foeticide because of preference for boys over girls for a host of reasons is gigantic in India. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights, during 1991 to 2011, a total of 25,49,3,480 girls went missing primarily as a result of sex selection. The child sex ratio (CSR) in India has […]
In the 2011 census, Assam recorded the 26th lowest Child Sex Ratio (CSR) of 962 girls per 1000 boys among 35 States and UTs against all India CSR of 919 girls per 1000 boys. Though Assam registered 43 points higher than the national CSR during 2011 census, the CSR has consistently been declining in the […]
