GENDERCIDE

Sex-selective abortion in India keeps claiming more victims

Michael Cook | 30 May 2021 | Comments

tags: gendercide, india

A study in The Lancet Global Health finds that at least 13.5 million girls were aborted over 30 years

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Should India repeal its ban on sex selection?

Michael Cook | 19 September 2020 | Comments

tags: abortion, gendercide, india

Yes, says Norwegian bioethicist

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Fears of Indian gendercide after fetuses found in sewer

Xavier Symons | 10 March 2017 | Comments

tags: abortion, gender ratio, gendercide, india, sex-selective abortion

Indian authorities have discovered 19 aborted fetuses dumped in plastic bags in the western state of Maharashtra.

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Gendercide becomes an issue in Canada

Michael Cook | 16 April 2016 | Comments

tags: Canada, gendercide, India, missing girls

Indian immigrants bring sex-selection with them.

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Indian Medical Association backs pre-natal sex tests

Michael Cook | 20 February 2016 | Comments

tags: gendercide, India, sex ratio, sex selection

If banning them won't work, perhaps making them compulsory will

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Indian doctor sues husband over pressure to abort twin daughters

Michael Cook | 27 November 2015 | Comments

tags: gendercide, India, sex-selective abortion

An attempt to highlight the on-going scandal of gendercide.

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The scary advance of gendercide in Nepal

Xavier Symons | 17 October 2015 | Comments

tags: abortion, gendercide, Nepal, sex-selective abortion

Rates of sex-selective abortion in Nepal are incredibly high, even though the practice is technically prohibited and hardly ever mentioned in Western media.

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A disturbing study of gendercide in India

Xavier Symons | 16 August 2014 | Comments

tags: gendercide, India, sex-selective abortion

A major report on sex-ratios and abortion in India gives detailed background on the scourge of gendercide.

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Gendercide in the Caucasus is worse than in India

Xavier Symons | 12 October 2013 | Comments

tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, gendercide, sex selection

An international team of researchers has identified massive sex-selection problems in the Caucasus.

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British prosecutor declines to lay charges for sex-selective abortions

Michael Cook | 14 September 2013 | Comments

tags: abortion, gendercide, sex-selective abortion, UK

England's Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to bring to trial doctors who agreed to do illegal sex-selective abortions.

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Georgia searches for solutions to gendercide

Michael Cook | 11 May 2013 | Comments

tags: abortion, gendercide, Georgia, sex ratio

India and China are not the only countries with lop-sided sex ratios due to sex-selective abortions. Georgia, a former member of the USSR in the Caucasus with a population of about 4.5 million, has a distorted sex ratio at birth of 114 boys to 100 girls

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Has reproductive technology made men redundant?

Michael Cook | 01 September 2012 | Comments

tags: gender, gendercide

Men are becoming less and less relevant to reproduction and parenting, according to an op-ed in the New York Times.

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Crackdown on illegal abortions restores Taiwan sex ratio

Jared Yee | 03 February 2012 | Comments

tags: gendercide, sex selection, Taiwan

Last year, Taiwanese health authorities moved to crack down on illegal abortions, warning that doctors found guilty of the practice could have their licenses revoked. They announced on Tuesday that tougher oversight on illegal gender-selective abortions prevented almost 1,000 terminations of female foetuses last year.

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Canadian journal calls for curbs on aborting girls

Michael Cook | 18 January 2012 | Comments

tags: abortion, Canada, gendercide

After a long legal and political debate leading up to a decision by its Supreme Court in 1988, Canada has ended up as one of the few nations in the world without an abortion law. About 100,000 abortion are performed each year. But now the Canadian Medical Association Journal is calling for strict limits on abortion – if the mother wants to abortion a child simply because it is a girl.

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India’s bad sex ratio worsens

Michael Cook | 02 April 2011 | Comments

tags: gendercide, India, sex ratio

Early returns for the 2011 census shows that the number of girls to 1,000 boys has shrunk to 914 girls to every 1000 boys, down from 927 in 2001.