Media watch - current news stories on issues of children
16 December 2006
India has killed 10 mln girls in 20 years -minister
"We have more passion for tigers of this country. We have people fighting for stray dogs on the road. But you have a whole society that ruthlessly hunts down girl children."
India's Street Kids Find New Lives as Tour Guides
If the children are lucky, they make it to the fence beyond track No. 1. That's where the jurisdiction of the police officers assigned to the train station ends. If the children are unlucky, they run into a pimp, a child trader looking for new victims -- young girls and handsome boys.
Indian government confirms sex-selection abortion crisis
"Today, we have the odd distinction of having lost 10 million girl children in the past 20 years," Chowdhury told a seminar in Delhi. "Who has killed these girl children? Their own parents."
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