| Experts think that the most important of these is female infanticide and foeticide which are practiced in our country. |
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| In India too, with the strong son preference, female foeticide is on the increase. |
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| But he made no promise to do something special to root out the practice of female foeticide. |
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| In June, at a workshop on female foeticide in Bangalore, I learned first-hand of certain techniques of contemporary journalism. |
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| This has prompted voluntary agencies like the Kottayam-based Kerala Voluntary Health Services to promote a campaign against female foeticide. |
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| In Gujarat, too, all kinds of violence, including foeticide, has increased. |
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| Female foeticide is for those who can afford a clandestine ultrasound scan and illegal abortion. |
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| In places where female infanticide was a customary practice, female foeticide has come in as a deadly substitute that is more convenient, less traumatic and equally effective. |
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| Female foeticide and infanticide have become major areas of concern. |
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| Modern ultrasound technology, coupled with a traditional preference for boys, has led to mass female foeticide. |
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| We will educate whoever is concerned towards the prevention of female infanticide and foeticide, and the practice of dowry. |
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| Researchers have attributed such sex-ratios to the practice of female foeticide, female infanticide, health-care and nutritional biases. |
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| Whereas there is grave concern that in certain countries female foeticide is commonly practised. |
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| The WMA denounces female foeticide as a totally unacceptable example of gender discrimination. |
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| A society that does not shudder in shame to hear cases of sati, female infanticide and foeticide, and bride burning for dowry can hardly be expected to react to cases of rape. |
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| But the realities for many Indian women stand in grim contrast as the discrimination against girls and female foeticide are common. |
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| As a result, the Ministry of Health and Welfare then strengthened the Pre Natal Diagnostic Test and persuaded the state government to charge people involved in female foeticide. |
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| It is our collective responsibility to help prevent female foeticide and provide girls with education and equal opportunities so they can also become better mothers in the global village. |
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| Gopika was born against all the odds in an area of India where foeticide is prevalent. |
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| Many of the programmes have focused on women's issues, including their participation in politics, their right to education, dowry deaths, domestic violence and female foeticide. |
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| Female foeticide remains prevalent, reflecting a cultural preference for boys. The government might also welcome a wider debate because it has a decent case to make. |
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| Unfortunately, there is only so much that can Udwin can cram into the space of an hour and some issues are merely mentioned, such as female foeticide or acid attacks. |
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| Child abuse and female foeticide are still happening in big numbers, but Sati is only performed in rural areas and that also in some very backward places. |
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| From uncovering the malpractices of doctors, rejecting Khap Panchayat, and Dowry system to talking about against Female foeticide, the actor has done it all. |
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| Indias prime minister, Narendra Modi, recently asked political leaders in the northern Indian state of Haryana to ensure female foeticide is brought to an end there. |
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