A Girl's Right to Live: Female foeticide and girl infanticide

Submitted by crinadmin on Thu, 15/03/2007 - 10:55

The issue of girl infanticide, or the murder of children because they are female, is of growing global concern. This report tackles the issue focusing on two main areas: the right to be born (female foeticide) and the right to live (female infanticide). The report identifies many of the root causes of girl infanticide in the private and public sphere of society, recommending specific actions to be taken.

The report is drafted by members of the Working Group on the Girl Child (part of the NGO Commitee on the Status of Women in Geneva). The Working Group considers these two areas as being of particular importance in the education of the concerned societies.

The publication and presentation of this report coincided with the 51st Session of the
Commission on the Status of Women meeting in New York (26 February to 9 March 2007) focusing on the “Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child”.

Further information

World Vision: Hope for the Girl Child - A Briefing Paper to the UN Commission on the Status of Women at its 51st session (February 2007)
Human Rights Watch: Violence against Girls - The 51st UN Commission on the Status of Women (February 2007)
Youth Advocate Program International report on Discrimination Against the Girl Child: Female Infanticide, Female Genital Cutting & Honor Killing

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Girl's infanticide CSW 2007.txt

Organisation:

International Council of Women - France

Link :

http://www.crin.org/docs/Girl's%20infanticide%20CSW%202007.txt

Countries

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