From TOI:
The UPA has chosen to ride on the memories of India’s first woman prime minister in declaring January 24 as the girl child day. Indira Gandhi had first taken over as PM on January 24, 1966.
Women and child development joint secretary Kiran Chadha said the decision was taken by the Union Cabinet recently. “We [...]
Jan 24 ‘girl child day’
January 8th, 2009 · View Comments
Tags: activism · girl child · sex selective abortion
7-month-old girl saved by heart surgery
August 25th, 2008 · View Comments
This is a heartening story from the front page, to do away with all the stories of sex-selection and missing girls in Rajasthan:
Benefactors wrote a new chapter in the history of the state infamous for female infanticides, when they saved the life of a seven-month-old baby girl. Yogita was brought back from the brink of [...]
Tags: activism · girl child · health & well-being · reproduction and repro rights · sex selective abortion
More abortion news
August 19th, 2008 · View Comments
Dr Meera Patodia, a gynaecologist of the Meera Hospital in the city has been charged with conducting an abortion without the consent of the mother in connivance with her in-laws.
The victim Renu Khediya in her complaint to the Mahila police station (East) on May 5 2006 had charged her husband Bhupendra Singh and in-laws Rahuraj [...]
Tags: dowry · girl child · globalisation · health & well-being · legal issues · reproduction and repro rights · sex and sexuality · sex selective abortion · violence against women/harrassment
