The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has urged Bhutan to implement the recommendations of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention which has submitted its final report after visiting the country in January 2019 to assess situation regarding the deprivation of liberty. The Working Group has submitted its final report to the UN […]
Pakistan has turned into a prison for Aasia Bibi. After acquittal by the Supreme Court from concocted blasphemy charges on 31 October 2018, the government of Pakistan entered into an agreement with the Tehreek-e-Labaik to place her name on the Exit Control List to prevent her from leaving the country which is indispensable to protect […]
The problem of female foeticide or sex selection in India is acute in India. The invention of technology i.e. ultrasonography for pre-natal sex determination in 1980s replaced intentional killing of infant girls with sex selective abortion of female foetuses. Since 1990s various studies recognised female infanticide as a serious problem with reduction of women in […]
Maharashtra has been at the forefront of the leading initiatives against female foeticide. It was the first State in India to enact a law to protect the female foetus by enacting the Maharashtra Regulation of Use of PreNatal Diagnostic Techniques Act in 1987, much before the enactment of the Prevention of Misuse of Pre-Natal Diagnostic […]
India is infamous for female foeticide and female infanticide, the crudest forms of gender based violence. The Child Sex Ratio (CSR) defined as the number of females per 1000 males in the age group 0-6 years had come down alarmingly to 939 as per 2011 census from 961 in 2001 in undivied Andhra Pradesh indicating […]
Female foeticide because of preference for boys over girls for a host of reasons is gigantic in India. According to the estimates of Asian Centre for Human Rights, during 1991 to 2011, a total of 25,49,3,480 girls went missing primarily as a result of sex selection. The child sex ratio (CSR) in India has […]
In the 2011 census, Assam recorded the 26th lowest Child Sex Ratio (CSR) of 962 girls per 1000 boys among 35 States and UTs against all India CSR of 919 girls per 1000 boys. Though Assam registered 43 points higher than the national CSR during 2011 census, the CSR has consistently been declining in the […]
