Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 80

Párrafo
Paragraph text
In the case of India, international attention has been drawn to the vast divergence in the country's natural gender ratio, with estimates that in 2003 100 million women were "missing" from its population. It is estimated that one million selective female foetal abortions occur annually in India. There is no official statistical data available on female infanticide, but in the state of Kerala, it is estimated that about 25,000 female newborns are killed every year. The preadolescent mortality rate of girls under 5 years old was 21 per cent higher than for boys of the same age in India. Violence, as well as nutritional and deliberate medical neglect by girls' parents, was cited as the main causes of death.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
  • Gender
  • Health
Personas afectadas
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
Año
2012
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Paragraph number
80