girls in india face discrimination from cradle to grave in different forms and in different arenas of life. however, it is long survival of women compare to men (due to menopause older women free from risk of bearing children in later life and live longer (cromie, 1998), which makes them 48% of population (census, 2011). at every step, she is in patriarchal shackles with no opportunity to escap...

India’s legal framework stipulates equal rights for all, regardless of gender. In practice, however, unequal power equations between males and females have led to violations of women’s reproductive rights. The girl child has often been a victim to the worst forms of discrimination. Gender bias, deep-rooted prejudices, and discrimination against the girl child have led to many cases of female fe...

After knowing her unborn child is a girl via medical testing, some mothers choose to abort or otherwise dispose of the foetus in process known as female foeticide. Typically, spouse, in-laws, even woman's own parents will exert pressure have do this. Abortions are often performed because an unwanted pregnancy. Yet, foeticide greater evil than age-old practise murdering undesired kid, before it ...

There is legal uncertainty as to whether selective foeticide is authorised under section 47A of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance (1967). Medical and legal issues surrounding a case of selective foeticide in a triplet pregnancy are reported.

In post-colonial India the female foeticide, a practice evolved from customary female infanticide of pre-colonial and colonial period, committed though in separate incidents, has made it almost a unified wave of mass murder. It does not fulfil the widely accepted existing definition of genocide but the high rate of abortion of legitimate girl-foetus by Indian parents makes their crime a kind of...

Girls in India face discrimination from cradle to grave in different forms and in different arenas of life. However, it is long survival of women compare to men (due to menopause older women free from risk of bearing children in later life and live longer (Cromie, 1998), which makes them 48% of population (Census, 2011). At every step, she is in patriarchal shackles with no opportunity to escap...