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Fetal Sex Testing Won’t Fix India’s Daughter Shortage

By: Sakuntala Narasimhan | March 21, 2016

Female feticide may be illegal in India but old structures of patriarchy combine with medical technologies to keep it going. We need basic awareness campaigns, not government mandates that will first invade a woman’s privacy and then backfire.

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Bike Rally in India Spotlights Scarcity of Women

By: Maham Javaid | February 23, 2015

India’s female shortage, say activists, makes the country more dangerous for women. In an effort to raise awareness of female feticide, 100 bikers pedaled 50 miles on Sunday.

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Hindu Weddings Add Pro-Girl Anti-Feticide Vow

By: Sakuntala Narasimhan | October 10, 2014

This cultural innovation is part of why 2014 will go down in Indian history as a year when society began cherishing girls and women and overcoming denigrating traditions. Reason to celebrate the U.N.’s International Day of the Girl Child on Oct. 11.

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Pregnant Volunteers Aid India’s Fetal Sex Law

By: Swapna Majumdar (WeNews correspondent) | September 25, 2013

The women go undercover in diagnostic centers to catch clinicians who break India’s 1994 federal law against sex-selective abortions. In the process, they are addressing a heavily skewed sex ratio and helping to make their district a model for enforcement.

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Sex-Selective Abortion Trending in Albania

By: Besar Likmeta | January 25, 2013

Albanian officials deny any evidence of widespread sex-selective abortion. But on the heels of a critical U.N. report the government is ordering a task force to consider a problem that researchers say is rooted in a cultural bias for male heirs.

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