" The petition to block the ads was brought by Dr. Sabu George, who the BBC described in 2015 as "India's leading activist against female foeticide.
|
|
He has launched a government campaign - Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, or "Save the Daughter, Educate the Daughter" - and called for the eradication of female foeticide.
|
|
In further disturbing comments there were calls for people to "poison" daughters, and legalise female foeticide, as well as several posts urging "Indian" women to be protected from "rape-obsessed foreigners".
|
|
On the next day after the episode went on air, Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot urged the public representatives and other non- governmental organisations to take actions to stop the illegal practice of female foeticide. An official reported that Gehlot also reviewed existing efforts taken by the government against the issue. He also directed the officials to prepare a plan for a special campaign against female foeticide. Khan, as promised on the show, met Gehlot over the issue of female foeticide.
|
|
Foeticide (or feticide) is the act of killing a fetus, or causing an abortion.Definitions of feticide from dictionary.com.
|
|
She married former SFI leader, Inderjit Singh. She has campaigned against honour killing and started a campaign against female foeticide.
|
|
Estimates for female foeticide vary by scholar. One group estimates more than 10 million female foetuses may have been illegally aborted in India since 1990s, and 500,000 girls were being lost annually due to female foeticide. MacPherson estimates that 100,000 abortions every year continue to be performed in India solely because the fetus is female.
|
|
Panaah is a Hindi drama television series dealing with female foeticide, that airs on DD National. It is written by Gajra Kottary.
|
|
Viewing Noahide law as a universalizing ethics, Sinclair states: "it is evident that the halakhah in the area of foeticide is shaped by a combination of legal doctrine and moral principle."Sinclair 44ff. However, the Tosafot text that applies Noahide law to forbid abortion does not go unchallenged. Another commentary in Tosafot (Niddah 44b) appears to question whether foeticide is permitted.
|
|
Since 2006 he has been helping small organisations working in remote areas to initiate social campaigns using grassroots comics on issues like infanticide, foeticide, corporal punishment and paedophilia.
|
|
Maharashtra Health Minister, Suresh Shetty asked for Khan's support for the government's campaign against female foeticide. In a letter written to Khan, Shetty mentioned that the Maharashtra government had registered cases against 317 sonography centres in the state conducting unauthorised sex determination tests. Also 27 doctors and four families who sought sex determination tests have been punished under the PCPNDT Act. However, Bollywood actor couple Ajay Devgn and Kajol became associated with the government's campaign against female foeticide.
|
|
Its areas of work cover conflict resolution, disaster and trauma relief, poverty alleviation, empowerment of women, prisoner rehabilitation, education for all, and campaigns against female foeticide, child labour and for environmental sustainability.
|
|
Laljibhai has also took the task of addressing various issues of female foeticide, water conservation, education, health, and social illiteracy in to his own hands for the betterment of the State of Gujarat.
|
|
This law was further amended into the Pre- Conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) (PCPNDT) Act in 2004 to deter and punish prenatal sex screening and female foeticide. However, there are concerns that PCPNDT Act has been poorly enforced by authorities. The impact of Indian laws on female foeticide and its enforcement is unclear. United Nations Population Fund and India's National Human Rights Commission, in 2009, asked the Government of India to assess the impact of the law.
|
|
Section 315 of the Indian Penal Code defines infanticide as the killing of an infant in the 0–1 year age group. The Code uses this definition to differentiate between infanticide and numerous other crimes against children, such as foeticide and murder. Some scholarly publications on infanticide use the legal definition. Others, such as the collaboration of Renu Dube, Reena Dube and Rashmi Bhatnagar, who describe themselves as "postcolonial feminists", adopt a broader scope for infanticide, applying it from foeticide through to femicide at an unspecified age.
|
|
In 2012, he directed the movie Riwayat, on female foeticide in India. In 2012, Patkar directed and produced the Marathi language movie Laavu Ka Laath. As of April 2013, Patkar had directed seven films and produced three.
|
|
Women from impoverished regions, as young as ten years old, desperate to escape their economic situations are deceived or kidnapped, Kamal Kumar Pandey Female Foeticide, Coerced Marriage & Bonded Labour in Haryana and Punjab: A Situational Report (10 December 2003) at [13]. into more prosperous regions such as Haryana by traffickers who make false promises of higher standards of living and wages. They are then sold as brides to prospective grooms (or their parents)., Kamal Kumar Pandey Female Foeticide, Coerced Marriage & Bonded Labour in Haryana and Punjab: A Situational Report (10 December 2003) at [24].
|
|
Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. ____ (2007). Findlaw.com. Retrieved 24 April 2007. In the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled that a legal ban on intact dilation and extraction procedures does not apply if foeticide is completed before surgery starts.
|
|
Tosafot questions whether it would be allowable to kill it even after the mother already died, because of the death sentence that applied to it. See also Igrot Moshe: Yoreh Deah Vol.2:60 that Tosafot does not mean to permit foeticide.
|
|
She is married to director Satish Manwar. Her parents were social activists. Her mother, Lata Pratibha Madhukar, is an activist with Narmada Bachao Andolan whereas her father, Ravindra, is a campaigner against female foeticide. She uses her parents' name instead of her surname.
|
|
Alice Garg (born 1942) is an educator and activist. She is the founder secretary of the Bal Rashmi Society, a non-profit NGO. She established the Alice Garg National Seashells Museum in Jaipur. She also campaigns for the abolition of Sati (practice) and female foeticide.
|
|
For Socially Useful Public Work the students have adopted nearby villages and through slogans, processions, Nukkad Nataks, posters and collages they spread awareness regarding social issues like dignity of labour, women empowerment, youth empowerment, self employment generation, female foeticide, child labour, and drug abuse.
|
|
Kuri-mar (or Kudi-mar) is a Punjabi phrase which literally means "girl killer". Various rehat-namas including the Sikh Rehat Maryada prohibited the practice. Today, the term also encompasses female foeticide and may refer to North-western regions of India which have skewed sex ratios.
|
|
Rates of female foeticide in Madhya Pradesh are increasing; the rate of live births was 932 girls per 1000 boys in 2001, which dropped to 918 by 2011. It is expected that if this trend continues, by 2021 the number of girls will drop below 900 per 1000 boys.
|
|
The Unknown World is a 2011 animated film from India about female infanticide or female foeticide, directed and produced by Varun Mehta. The film won an online film and animation contest in 2012. It was also screened at the Public Service Announcement Film Festival in Chennai, India in 2011.
|
|
Mirza has been involved with Cancer Patients Aid Association and Spastics Society of India, and has worked extensively with the government of Andhra Pradesh to spread HIV awareness, prevention of female foeticide, PETA, CRY and most recently the NDTV Greenathon – an effort to find tangible solutions against pollution and the book, "Deke Dheko" by Radio Mirchi (a campaign initiated to collect books for underprivileged children). She is on the board of the Coca-Cola foundation that works towards development in rural India. She is associated with campaigns such as Sanctuary Asia's Leave Me Alone and Female Foeticide. In 2010 she adopted two cheetah cubs at the Prince of Wales zoological park in Lucknow.
|
|
Appan Samachar focus on various social ills like farmers problems, environmental issues, social evils, women empowerment, child marriage, gender discrimination, female foeticide, etc. Young girls employed as a journalist in this channel generally rides bicycle to gather the news and interviews. The screening of news bulletin is free to air.
|
|
The Unknown World was first screened at the first Public Service Announcement (PSA) Film Festival at Chennai. It received a special prize for its theme of 'Female Foeticide'. In 2012 it won an international short film contest organized by American website Buzzgoo.com. The film was screened in many cities throughout India.
|
|
Some years back, some poets and journalists formed the Nand Lal Noorpuri Society with the aim to spread the poet's work. Currently, it has the only annual award it gives to singers and poets. Sarbjit Cheema is the recent one to receive this award for his song on girl foeticide.
|
|
For example, the state of Delhi adopted a pro- girl policy initiative (locally called Laadli scheme), which initial data suggests may be lowering the birth sex ratio in the state.Delhi Laadli scheme 2008 Government of Delhi, India These types of government programs and schemes are a type of redistribution in an attempt to further development in the country. The central and state governments in India have noticed the country's failure to deal with female foeticide on its own and have come up with programs to deal with the problem at hand. A serious flaw that makes all of these programs ineffective is that they target only lower-income households, while ignoring the population of higher-income households also partaking in female foeticide.
|
|
On the eve of the conference, an expo on women's rights and issues was inaugurated by Popular Front of India state president A.S.Ismail. Graphic illustrations of domestic violence, rape, female foeticide and riots victims have been presented at the expo. NWF conducted a campaign related to human rights and legal awareness in various States of India.
|
|
Riwayat () is a 2010 Indian drama film directed by Vijay Patkar and produced by Dr. Ajay Rane and Dr. Sanjay Patole. The film stars Khalid Siddiqui, Samapika Debnath, Saurabh Dubey and Salil Ankola in pivotal roles. The film is based on the issues of female foeticide in India. The film was screened at international film festivals and won several international awards.
|
|
Actors from Bollywood, Marathi actors and singers take part in this event. Some mandals even incorporated social messages like female foeticide or about the environment into their act; the Shiv Sena and MNS focus on Marathi culture. In some years, Castellers from Catalonia also take part in the competition. A Dahi Handi, tied up high for the Hindu festival of Janmashtmi Krishna.
|
|
He has an organic farm, where he grows organic plants, trees and herbs. Jackie attended the opening of the environment Jaldhaara Foundation. He is also the brand ambassador of Thalassemia India and over the years has supported many causes like HIV/AIDS awareness and abolishment of female foeticide. He has also funded the treatment and education of many underprivileged children.
|
|
One school of scholars suggest that female foeticide can be seen through history and cultural background. Generally, male babies were preferred because they provided manual labor and success the family lineage. The selective abortion of female fetuses is most common in areas where cultural norms value male children over female children for a variety of social and economic reasons.Goodkind, Daniel (1999).
|
|
Similarly, child sex ratio greater than 115 boys per 100 girls is found in regions where the predominant majority is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian; furthermore "normal" child sex ratio of 104 to 106 boys per 100 girls are also found in regions where the predominant majority is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian. These data contradict any hypotheses that may suggest that sex selection is an archaic practice which takes place among uneducated, poor sections or particular religion of the Indian society. There is an ongoing debate as to whether these high sex ratios are only caused by female foeticide or some of the higher ratio is explained by natural causes. The Indian government has passed Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PCPNDT) in 1994 to ban and punish prenatal sex screening and female foeticide.
|
|
One day her father got a call from a lyricist who had written an empowering song around 'Danger Chamar'. That's how the song was born. The song looked at eradicating the unpleasantness associated with her caste name, Chamar and turn it into something more empowering and a matter of pride. She has sung songs on female foeticide and the problem of drugs in Punjab.
|
|
Supriya Sule (née Pawar) (born 30 June 1969) is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently a Member of Parliament (MP) in 15th,16th and 17th Lok Sabha representing Baramati. In 2011, she launched a statewide campaign against female foeticide. Recently, she has been honored with Mumbai Women of the Decade Achievers Award by ALL Ladies League for her outstanding contribution to social service.
|
|
Sule was elected to the Rajya Sabha in the September 2006 intake from Maharashtra and is a trustee of the Nehru Centre in Bombay. She led the state level campaign against female foeticide. The campaign included padayatras, college events, competitions etc. In 2012, under the leadership of Sule, the wing named Rashtravadi Yuvati Congress was formed to give platform to young girls in politics.
|
|
He won immunity twice in a row and reached the final five, but was voted out in Episode 21. He played a cameo in Zee TV's show Badalte Rishton Ki Dastaan. In 2018 he opted to play a negative role on Colors TV show Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka. He has directed a short film based on female- foeticide Bareilly Ki Beti: The Youngest Survivor starring his wife Rubina Dilaik.
|
|
In 2009, Bhatti school's, Mad Art's, animation film on female foeticide won the second prize in the Advantage India organised by 1take media. It won a certificate of merit at the IDPA-2008 Awards in Mumbai. Bhatti was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award, at the first Golden Kela Awards. Jaspal Bhatti was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India, posthumously on Republic Day 2013 for his contribution to Arts.
|
|
When families choose to partake in pre-natal sex selection through illegal ultrasounds or abortions, they impart a negative spillover on society. These include increased gender disparity, a high sex ratio, lives lost, lack of development, and abuse and violence against women and children. Families do not often keep this spillover in mind and this results in sex selection and female foeticide, which hurts society as a whole.
|
|
In 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Poonia was nominated by Congress from the Jaipur Rural constituency. She contested against Olympian Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore of the BJP. She lost to Rathore by a margin of 393171 votes. Poonia has been helping Rajasthan State Health Ministry in its attempt to curb female foeticide as the selective abortion of female fetuses is a pressing concern in Indian especially in Haryana where Poonia grew up.
|
|
Some of the variation in birth sex ratios and implied female foeticide may be due to disparate access to resources. As MacPherson (2007) notes, there can be significant differences in gender violence and access to food, healthcare, immunizations between male and female children. This leads to high infant and childhood mortality among girls, which causes changes in sex ratio. Disparate, gendered access to resources appears to be strongly linked to socioeconomic status.
|
|
The All-India Jat Mahasabha held a convention at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi on 9 March 2007 under the chairmanship of its president, Dara Singh. One of the main issues taken up at the convention, which was attended by several Central and State Ministers and MPs, was reservation for the Jats in State and Central Government jobs. The convention also discussed social evils like female foeticide, dowry and drug abuse. 2007 was celebrated as the organisation's centenary year.
|
|
Male to female sex ratio for India, based on its official census data, from 1941 through 2011. The data suggests the existence of high sex ratios before and after the arrival of ultrasound-based prenatal care and sex screening technologies in India. Female foeticide has been linked to the arrival, in the early 1990s, of affordable ultrasound technology and its widespread adoption in India. Obstetric ultrasonography, either transvaginally or transabdominally, checks for various markers of fetal sex.
|
|
A 2012 UNICEF report ranked India 41st among 195 countries. In the Population Census of 2011 it was revealed that the population ratio of India 2011 is 919 females per 1000 of males. The Sex Ratio 2011 shows a downward trend from the census 2001 data. Speaking on the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child in 2014, the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had called for the eradication of female foeticide and invited suggestions from the citizens of India via the MyGov.
|
|
Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women (Hindi: मातृभूमि, translation: Motherland) is a 2003 Indian dystopian tragedy film written and directed by Manish Jha. The film examines the impact of female foeticide and female infanticide on the gender balance and consequently the stability and attitudes of society. Its storyline bears some resemblance to real-life instances of gender imbalance and economics resulting in fraternal polyandry and bride buying in some parts of India.Draupadis bloom in rural Punjab Times of India, 16 July 2005.
|
|
The film was a milestone in the annals of Tamil cinema, addressed the heinous act of female foeticide prevalent in Tamil Nadu during that time. This hard hitting film highlights this crime and created huge awareness among the people and officials, which led to the banning of the practice of prenatal sex identification across country. It was received with critical acclaim and received many accolades. The film looks at female infanticide and the hatred that surrounds the birth of a female child.
|
|
Ranjana Kumari, a women rights activist, said that she does not attend weddings because dowry is given in almost all of them, and that dowry is the cause of the female foeticide in India as parents see a girl child as an economic burden. Jyotsna Chatterji, another women right's activist, said that this one protest had given courage to other women to come forward.. None of these media, activists or politicians provided any statements after court acquitted the accused in this false case.
|
|
Despite a government ban on sex-selective foeticide, the practice remains commonplace in India, the result of a preference for boys in a patriarchal society. Quote: "Although it has been illegal nationwide for doctors to disclose the sex of a fetus since the 1994 Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, the ease of ordering cheap and portable ultrasound machines, especially online, has kept the practice of sex-selective abortions alive." The payment of dowry, although illegal, remains widespread across class lines.
|
|
Jaswinder has worked in Punjabi feature films like Mahaul Theek Hai, Jeeja Ji, Jihne Mera Dil Luteya, Power cut, Kabaddi Once Again, Apan Phir Milange, Mel Kara De Rabba, Carry On Jatta, Jatt and Juliet, Jatt Airways. In some Punjabi films he always speak with different Takia Klams. Such as Mein Taa Bhannduu Bullan Naal Akhrote, Je Chandigarh Dhaijoo Pinda Warga Taa Rehjooo or Dhillon Ne Kaalaa Cot Aiven Ni Payeya. He said through his art, he highlights social evils like female foeticide, drugs and unemployment.
|
|
Desai’s last novel The Sea of Innocence was the third in the series, featuring the feisty Indian middle-aged social worker-cum-crime investigator, Simran Singh. Her award-winning novel Witness the Night, which was the first in the Simran Singh series, dealt with female foeticide. In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl, barely alive, is found in a sprawling house where thirteen people lie dead. Simran is now her only hope as she is charged with the murder of those dead.
|
|
Child Sex Ratio 2001 versus 2011 Census of India, Government of India (2013) The Indian census data suggests there is a positive correlation between abnormal sex ratio and better socio-economic status and literacy. This may be connected to the dowry system in India where dowry deaths occur when a girl is seen as a financial burden. Urban India has higher child sex ratio than rural India according to 1991, 2001 and 2011 Census data, implying higher prevalence of female foeticide in urban India.
|
|
"Should Prenatal Sex Selection be Restricted?: Ethical Questions and Their Implications for Research and Policy". Population Studies 53 (1): 49–61 A son is often preferred as an "asset" since he can earn and support the family; a daughter is a "liability" since she will be married off to another family, and so will not contribute financially to her parents. Female foeticide then, is a continuation in a different form, of a practice of female infanticide or withholding of postnatal health care for girls in certain households.
|
|
This graph shows the marriage market for women in India and how the lack of females due to female foeticide results in a lower supply of women. The gap is bridged by men kidnapping or importing wives from other regions. Classic economic theory views the market for marriage as one in which people bargain for a spouse who maximizes their utility gains from marriage. In India, many of these bargains actually take place within the family and therefore individual utility is replaced by family utility.
|
|
Female foeticide in India () is the abortion of a female foetus outside of legal methods. The natural sex ratio is assumed to be between 103 and 107, and any number above it is considered as suggestive of female foeticide. According to the decennial Indian census, the sex ratio in 0 to 6 age group in India has risen from 102.4 males per 100 females in 1961,Data Highlights - 2001 Census Census Bureau, Government of India to 104.2 in 1980, to 107.5 in 2001, to 108.9 in 2011.India at Glance - Population Census 2011 - Final Census of India, Government of India (2013) The child sex ratio is within the normal natural range in all eastern and southern states of India,Census of India 2011: Child sex ratio drops to lowest since Independence The Economic Times, India but significantly higher in certain western and particularly northwestern states such as Maharashtra, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir (118, 120 and 116, as of 2011, respectively).Child Sex Ratio in India C Chandramouli, Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India (2011) The western states of Maharashtra and Rajasthan 2011 census found a child sex ratio of 113, Gujarat at 112 and Uttar Pradesh at 111.
|
|
On 10 May 2012, The Rajasthan Government suspended the licenses of six sonography centres and issued notices to 24 others for violating the provisions of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal and Diagnostic (PCPNDT) Act, 1994. However, the health minister of Rajasthan, Rajkumar Sharma, criticised the show for "sensationalising female foeticide cases". He argued that the government had already been taking action against female foetecide, and did not perform a knee-jerk reaction following the show. The first episode of the show also influenced several state governments in India.
|
|
The book dealt with the life and travails of its protagonist, Koolaiyan, a young goatherd of the Chakkili caste, who was bonded to work in a Gounder caste family to repay his father's debts. The book dealt with themes of childhood, autonomy, and freedom. His next novel, Kanganam (Resolve, 2008) dealt with the consequences of sex-selective abortions and female foeticide that caused a skewed sex ratio in the Kongunadu region. It focuses on the protagonist, Marimuthu, unmarried because of the scarcity of women within his caste and society.
|
|
Satyamev Jayate () is an Indian television talk show aired on various channels within Star Network along with Doordarshan's DD National. The first season of the show premiered on 6 May 2012 and marked the television debut of popular Bollywood actor and filmmaker Aamir Khan. The second season of the show was aired from 2 March 2014 and the third season started from 5 October 2014. The show focuses on sensitive social issues prevalent in India such as female foeticide, child sexual abuse, rape, honour killings, domestic violence, untouchability, alcoholism, and the criminalization of politics.
|
|
"In countries such as India, where only a small intellectual elite has been trained in Western physics, astrology manages to retain here and there its position among the sciences." David Pingree and Robert Gilbert, "Astrology; Astrology in India; Astrology in modern times". Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008Mohan Rao, Female foeticide: where do we go? Indian Journal of Medical Ethics October–December 2001 9(4) In 2001, Indian scientists and politicians debated and critiqued a proposal to use state money to fund research into astrology, resulting in permission for Indian universities to offer courses in Vedic astrology.
|
|
The second workshop for the Meri Shakti, Meri Beti project was initiated by Manasi Mishra who emphasized issues regarding the social and economic implications of pre-natal sex selection. Results indicated 100 students had signed the petition and pledged to support the prevention of female foeticide in their communities. In addition, a continuous effort is made by reaching out to the public, creating awareness through campaigns and workshops to increase the sex ratio. These will also serve as educating materials to the local communities in encouraging their taking a stand against sex selection.
|
|
Shilpi Marwaha performed thousands of street plays in Delhi NCR and other states, based on social issues—like Corruption, Women empowerment, Environment, Road-rage, Anti-Ragging, LGBTQ, Communal harmony, Female foeticide Child education, Mental Health, Gender equality, Domestic violence, Child labour, Poverty, Drugs, Inter-faith etc. Dastak – written and conceptualized by Shilpi herself, is the biggest hit and has been performed over thousand shows across India. Marwaha is also active in Social Awareness movement. She actively participated in women's safety movement to raise voice for domestic workers and in anti-corruption movement etc.
|
|
The story was also covered by Christiane Amanpour for 60 Minutes which contained an overview of the dowry system in India, the anti- dowry laws, bride burning and female foeticide. Smriti Kak writing for The Tribune criticised the father and the bride for agreeing to the dowry initially and stopping the marriage only when the demands got too high. The incident was also captured in an Amul Butter Girl cartoon. Brinda Karat, a left-wing politician and activist, said that the parents had sent the wrong signal by agreeing to too many gifts initially.
|
|
Sex determination tests and sex selective abortions are prevalent more amongst affluent families. For example, upper-class families in Haryana have high rates of foeticide and infanticide and the programs do not target these families. A study in Haryana found that the sex ratio at birth for upper caste women was 127 males for 100 females, compared with 102 with lower caste women. While cash transfers successfully improve school enrollment and immunization rates for girls, they do not directly address parent's demand for sons and gender-biased sex selection.
|
|
Other than working with the likes of Amol Palekar for a theatre production named Julus, he has also prominent roles in hit Marathi films like Dahavi Pha, Nati Goti, Valu, Amhi Satpute, Tukaram to name a few and a cameo in Dhol by director Priyadarshan. Vrishasen Dabholkar woke up to the ugly truth of female foeticide when he made his first documentary in college. A mass communication student, Vrishasen was introduced to Laadli- National Creative Excellence Awards for Social Change by his college after which he went ahead to win a category at the awards too.
|
|
Air Date:- 6 May 2012 The show in progress during its first episode where Aamir Khan is interacting with journalists Meena Sharma and Shripal Shaktawat The first episode focused on the issue of female foeticide in India. The show began with some stories of mothers who struggled to give birth to their girl child. The first guest on the show was Amisha Yagnik from Ahmedabad. Yagnik was forced by her husband and in-laws to abort her female unborn children six times in a span of eight years and further shared her experiences in finally giving birth to a daughter.
|
|
After the first episode, for example, Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, urged public representatives and non-governmental organisations to take actions to stop the illegal practice of female foeticide. Khan met Gehlot over the issue, and Gehlot accepted the request to set up fast track court to deal the case of the sting operation featured on the show. Following the second episode, the helpline for children received an increased number of calls from across the country, reporting child abuse. The legislation to protect children below 18 years from sexual abuse became a reality with the Lok Sabha passing the bill.
|
|
As a strong advocate of women's rights the Panthers Party women's wing works to protect women from domestic abuse in Jammu and Kashmir and female foeticide. The Women Panthers have called for a 33% reservation of seats for women in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Prof. Bhim Singh who is locally known as Sher-e-Jammu (Lion of Jammu) is the party's Chief Patron and served as the Panthers Party chairman for 30 years till 2012, when his nephew Harsh Dev Singh became Chairman. Balwant Singh Mankotia has served as party's state President since 2010.
|
|
The Purple Line is the debut novel of Indian author, Priyamvada N Purushotham. It was published by HarperCollins India in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, 2012. Set in Chennai, India, at the turn of the century, it is the tale of a gynaecologist who unearths the stories of six unlikely patients whose lives are intertwined without them knowing it. It deals with some of the gender issues facing the women of India today, including female foeticide and infanticide, and is considered by many to be an audacious exploration of womanhood.
|
|
In this marriage market, men and their families are trying to maximize their utility, which creates a supply and demand for wives. However, female foeticide and a high sex ratio have high implications for this market. Dharma Kumar, argues that, "Sex selection at conception will reduce the supply of women, they will become more valuable, and female children will be better cared for and will live longer". In the graph, this is depicted by the leftward shift of the supply curve and the subsequent decrease in quantity of females from Q1 to Q2 and increase in their value from P1 to P2.
|
|
Married women go to their maternal house to participate in the festivities.Alop Ho Raha Punjabi Virsa: Harkesh Singh KehalUnistar Books PVT Ltd Shankarlal C. Bhatt (2006) Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories: In 36 Volumes. Punjab, Volume 22 In the past, it was traditional for women to spend the whole month of Sawan with their parents.Rainuka Dagar (2002) Identifying and Controlling Female Foeticide and Infanticide in Punjab Teej is historically a Hindu festival, dedicated to Goddess Parvati and her union with Lord Shiva, one observed in northern, western, central and Himalayan regions of the Indian subcontinent.
|
|
He has been working for a pollution free environment. He has been closely associated with campaigns against female foeticide, "Zero budget prakritik kheti" and the "Beti Padhao-Beti Bacahao" campaign. He has travelled to Europe and South East Asia for propagating Indian culture As a first administrative act of its kind in the history of Himachal Pradesh, Devvrat has initiated steps for directly taking up social issues including drug abuse and intolerance. The governor held a meeting with senior bureaucrats from the state administration to monitor the steps taken to check these social evils on 3 November 2015.
|
|
Wajid India not only used his art as a medium to render happiness or express his emotions but he has also played a significant role in awakening the society. In 2014, he became a part of Save Girl Child campaign and with medical equipment, he created an artifact of an innocent crying girl. This depicts that a scissor which is used in stitching the wounds, and a stethoscope which is used to measure heartbeats, is often the reason for the death of an innocent. Wajid has fearlessly shown this reality with the help of medical equipment and has given a message to stop foeticide.
|
|
Sex-selective abortion or female foeticide has led to a sharp drop in the ratio of girls born in contrast to boy infants in some states in India. Ultrasound technology has made it possible for pregnant women and their families to learn the sex of a foetus early in a pregnancy. Discrimination against girl infants, for several reasons, has combined with the technology to result in a rise in abortions of foetuses identified as female during ultrasonic testing. The trend was first noticed when results of the 1991 national census were released, and it was confirmed to be a worsening problem when results of the 2001 national census were released.
|
|
Three of the Phogat sisters Geeta, Babita and Vinesh are gold medalists in different weight categories at the Commonwealth Games, while Priyanka has won a silver medal at the Asian Championships. Ritu is a National Championships gold medalist and Sangita has won medals at age-level international championships. The success of the Phogat sisters has attracted substantial media attention, particularly due to the prevalent social issues in Haryana such as gender inequality, female foeticide and child marriage. The Bollywood film Dangal released in India on 23 December 2016 is based on the lives of Phogat sisters with Mahavir, Geeta and Babita as its main characters.
|
|
Her gender writing dovetailed into her work on population at The Statesman. She gave it a sharp profile by writing an editorial or a signed piece on the multiple and complex issues at least once a week. Among the most hard-hitting was a series on the global politics of infant formula food titled 'Making Suckers of the Third World'. She was the first to point out the flaws of a 'target-driven' approach, and can claim to have coined the now widely used term, 'foeticide', when she began strongly condemning the snowballing practice of turning amniocentesis from a medical tool into a weapon of gender genocide in the mid-1980s.
|
|
The Motto of NCC is Unity and Discipline; Cadets are trained during camps in areas like disaster management, first aid, martial arts, mountaineering, army, self-defense and other tools of sustenance and survival. The cadets also offered their social services in Blood Donation Camp, Ganapati Visarjan Project and Red Ribbon Ex. Rally against AIDS, Pulse Polio Drive, Senior Citizen Adoption, Tree Plantation, Anti Female Foeticide Rally and gave their contribution towards society. A Tar road and open space around the College buildings are being used for NCC parades and march-past practice. College also provides facilities for adventure activities like River Crossing, Rappling, and Training for Civil Defense.
|
|
Justice Pritam Pal is going to launch a non- political, but social outfit under the name of “Indian Justice front”. Aim of this front would be to fight prevailing corruption, injustice with any individual or any section of society, drug abuse, female foeticide, character building, promote education, and work against various other prevailing social evils weakening the social set up. Membership for this organisation would be launched from coming October 2 the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri who always stood for truth and righteousness and worked for the upliftment of society without any fear and self interest and eked out a place for them in the hearts of people the world over.
|
|
Persistent's journey of Satyamev Jayate Star India Network's Chief Marketing Officer Gayatri Yadav commented "What social media did was far beyond anything producers anticipated. It took the show and made it the people’s show" about the response from social networking sites.Indian TV Show Uses Social Media Analytics to Rally Viewers Around Social Change Persistent Systems Enables Social Media Analytics for Satyamev Jayate The issues discussed on the show garnered national attention, with several being discussed in parliament and influencing politicians and lawmakers to take action. After the first episode, for example, Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, urged public representatives and non- governmental organisations to take actions to stop the illegal practice of female foeticide.
|
|
Injecting potassium chloride into the heart of a fetus causes immediate asystole, but depending on the method used, digoxin may fail to induce fetal demise in some cases (up to 5% if injected into the fetus and up to a third if injected into the amniotic sac) even though it is the preferred drug in many clinics. Digoxin is preferred because it is technically difficult to inject KCl into the heart or umbilical cord. The most common method of selective reduction—a procedure to reduce the number of fetuses in a multifetus pregnancy—is foeticide via a chemical injection into the selected fetus or fetuses. The reduction procedure is usually performed during the first trimester of pregnancy.
|
|
In this context there is minimal acceptance and respect of young girls and women and often an absence of family support, which result in a variety of context-specific versions of femicide and gender-based violence in the region: honour killings, acid burning attacks, witch-hunting, foeticide, and gender-based violence during caste and communal conflict. The country has attempted to manage femicide through some policy enactment. India has primarily focused on creating legislation related to population control resulting in pressures to have a son. Some regions in India have incentivised parents to birth daughters by offering money to families with girls in order to offset the expenses associated with having a daughter.
|
|
The Constitution of India prohibits all forms of trafficking under Article 23(1) which states that "Traffic in human beings and begar [sic] and other similar forms of forced labour are prohibited and any contravention of this provision shall be an offence punishable in accordance with the law." , Constitution of India 1949 (India), art 23(1). However, India is yet to implement comprehensive laws prohibiting the practice of bride trafficking. Despite the explicit references to trafficking in the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956, it pertains only to commercial sexual activities in brothels and public places., Kamal Kumar Pandey Female Foeticide, Coerced Marriage & Bonded Labour in Haryana and Punjab: A Situational Report (10 December 2003) at [6].
|
|
To address the nationwide issues of female foeticide and female infanticide, the government of India has passed the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act 1994 which prohibits sex determination via prenatal screening. However, even if all discriminatory practice ceased, it is estimated that it will take at least 50 years for the population (in India) to reach its natural sex ratio., United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Current Status of Victim Service Providers and Criminal Justice Actors in India on Anti Human Trafficking (2013) at [96]. In 2002, the Union Ministry of Child and Development launched the Scheme for Women in Difficult Circumstances (SWADHAR) to protect the welfare of vulnerable women.
|
|
This process began in the early 1990 when ultrasound techniques gained widespread use in India. There was a tendency for families to continuously produce children until a male child was born. Foetal sex determination and sex selective abortion by medical professionals has today grown into a Rs. 1,000 crore industry (US$ 244 million). Social discrimination against women and a preference for sons have promoted female foeticide in various forms skewing the sex ratio of the country towards men. According to the decennial Indian census, the sex ratio in the 0–6 age group in India went from 104.0 males per 100 females in 1981, to 105.8 in 1991, to 107.8 in 2001, to 109.4 in 2011.
|
|
In China, the one child policy has contributed to the sex imbalance, while the dowry system in India is responsible for a strong son preference. Furthermore, in countries where there are discriminatory practices regarding women inheriting, owning, or controlling land by law, having a son ensures that the family will not have to worry about the legal aftermath if something were to happen to them. It can also be argued that parents in these countries are aware of the potential hardship their daughter would have to endure in her lifetime, and therefore prefer to have a son in order not to see their daughter endure such difficulties. Many times this son preference results in female foeticide and pre-natal sex selection.
|
|
They conduct regular polio vaccine clinics, have opened schools and anganwadis, organize food programs such as Bal Bhoj, set up livelihood earning programs such as sewing centres for women and campaign against child marriages. The organization, which has adopted 54 children, has a presence all over Chhattisgarh and has initiated social campaigns such as Sharab Bandh (Stop Liquor), a campaign through which tyey were reported to have succeeded in closing down 250 liquor shops in the state. The organization has been named the brand ambassadors for female foeticide by the Government of Rajasthan. Yadav has met with many obstacles in her efforts, even from her husband, who is reported to have beaten her up and refused her entry inside home when Yadav was late from her work.
|
|
In this capacity, she also worked effectively for checking the social problems which included the effective implementation of measures for checking the incidence of child marriages, female foeticide, exploitation of women and children in various forms and large number of such other social atrocities. Misra had also been invited to participate in the South Asian Conference on invitation of the UNICEF held at Kathmandu (Nepal) on the subject of "Ending Violence against the Women and Children". In 1998 she also represented India, as a guest speaker, in the Conference of the International Association of Women Judges held at Ottawa in Canada where a variety of issues relating to women and children in the world at large were the subject matter of discussion and deliberations.
|
|
The second guest, Parveen Khan from Morena, Madhya Pradesh shared the story of her husband disfiguring her face by biting it, when she insisted on giving birth to a female child against his wishes. Another guest, doctor Mitu Khurana from Delhi was asked by her orthopaedic surgeon husband and in-laws to abort her girl twins 20 weeks after conceiving. Her story helped dispel the perception and myth among people that the abhorrent practice of female foeticide is practised only by rural people or those living in small towns or is confined only to lesser educated people. The show claimed that according to 2011 Census, the rate at which the unborn female child is killed amounts to killing off girls a year and there were 914 girls for every 1,000 boys.
|
|
Among other territories or princely states ruled by Jadeja before independence of India, were Dhrol,Gazetteers: Jamnagar District, Gujarat (India) - 1970 - Page 614 Before the integration of States, Dhrol was a Class II State founded by Jam Hardholji, the brother of Jam Raval, who hailed from the ruling Jadeja Darbar family of Kutch. Morvi, Rajkot, Nawanagar, and Virpur. Although the British rulers found the tradition distasteful, the Jadeja's high social status and the rigid caste system that forbade intermarriage with lower social groups contributed to the community's tradition of female infanticide because it was difficult and costly to arrange suitable marriages for female offspring, with substantial dowries often being required. The practice continues to some degree today, although where modern facilities are available it may take the form of female foeticide.
|
|
Street Play against child labour, female foeticide and child trafficking While being a cultural festival, Riviera has also been used as a platform to highlight social issues which plague the world currently. Through the numerous street play events that have been organized by the colleges own dramatics club, numerous social issues such as child labor, female infanticide, and child trafficking. A chapter of Bangalore based NGO Juvenile Care, present at the campus has organized marches which have seen the participation of 200+ students for social issues such as “Save the female child” in 2013 and child trafficking in 2015. A premier event at the festival, VITMUN, a model united nations conference, has also helped highlight social issues and as such has partnered up with UN organizations, with the 2016 iteration teaming up with UN Women for the He for She campaign.
|
|
Its frequency, and that of sex-selective abortion, is indirectly estimated from the observed high birth sex ratio; that is, the ratio of boys to girls at birth or 0–1 age group infants, or 0–6 age group child sex ratio. The natural ratio is assumed to be 106, or somewhere between 103 and 107, and any number above or below this range is considered as suggestive of female or male foeticide respectively.Therese Hesketh and Zhu Wei Xing, Abnormal sex ratios in human populations: Causes and consequences, PNAS, 5 September 2006, vol. 103, no. 36, pp 13271-13275 Higher sex ratios than in India have been reported for the last 20 years in China, Pakistan, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and some Southeast European countries, and attributed in part to female infanticide, among other factors. There is an ongoing debate as to the cause of high sex ratios in the 0–1 and 0–6 age groups in India.
|
|
There is severe shortage of women among the socially upper castes like Jats, Rors, Ahirs, Yadavs, and Brahmins, while economically better offs among them can easily find a local bride within their caste, the disadvantaged men among them "who are underemployed, poor, those who have little land, suffer from some deformity, are less educated or are old are the ones who most often seek cross-region brides". This phenomenon has now spread to lower castes and Muslim communities. In India female foeticide, female infanticide and deliberate neglect of female childrenSonali Mukherjee "Skewed Sex Ratio and Migrant Brides in Haryana: Reflections from the Field" (2013) 43 Social Change 37 at 38. have resulted in the sex ratio imbalance in the country. Preference for sons stems from centuries old patriarchal traditions which see women as financial burdens where property is passed down the male lineage and dowry expenses are expected to be paid by the bride’s family to the groom upon marriage.
|
|