From: planetsave.com
Gendercide Is Human Rights Violation, Too
Written by Talia Carner
Friday, 15 December 2006
Re: Human Rights Watch Dog Calls....
Often absent from discussions about human rights abuse in China is infanticide, or rather gendercide, as an estimated 1.7 million baby girls are "missing" in China each year. Often, tens of thousands abandoned babies die in state-controlled orphanages, while the gap in boy-girl ratio is growing particularly in regions where the one-child policy results in the traditional favoring of boys.
(to read the related article click here: Human rights watchdog calls on China to repeal restrictions on lawyers)
With the upcoming Olympics 2008, Western attention is often turned to Chinese activists being imprisoned, unfair wages being paid to laborers building the Olympics facilities, Chinese juveniles in the court system, AIDS patients going untreated, suppression of protests--and the fast trade in organ harvesting. But over a million babies being abandoned or killed? There is rarely a mention of them.
Infanticide is the starting point of human rights abuses.
Talia Carner Author, China Doll
Please read more on my website at www.TaliaCarner.com
Gendercide is all over the world and in India. This awful thing needs to be stopped.
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