Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children. Female infanticide is prevalent in several nations such as China, India and Pakistan...

China has a history of female infanticide which spans 2,000 years. When Christian missionaries arrived in China in the late sixteenth century, they witnessed...

Female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries. Poverty, the dowry system, births to unmarried women, deformed infants, famine, lack of support...

Infanticide (or infant homicide) is the intentional killing of infants or offspring. Infanticide was a widespread practice throughout human history that...

question whether sex-selective abortion or infanticide claims are accurate, because underreporting of female births may also explain high sex ratios. Natural...

infanticide in Pakistani cities. This was led by the Edhi Foundation and Chhipa Welfare Foundation. The infanticide was mainly almost all were female...

infanticide) but including microscopic rotifers, insects, fish, amphibians, birds and mammals. Infanticide can be practiced by both males and females...

Female infanticide in Pakistan had been a common practice. But it is no longer a common practice due to steps taken by local polices and Governments and...

China Sex-selective abortion Female infanticide in China Lee 1981, p. 164. Lee, Bernice J. (1981). "Female Infanticide in China". Historical Reflections...

The Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870, also Act VIII of 1870 was a legislative act passed in British India, to prevent murder of female infants...

of origin of the Rajput community resulted in hypergamy as well as female infanticide that was common in Hindu Rajput clans. Scholars refer to this as "Rajputisation"...

practice female infanticide. The colonial authorities also found that both in rural North and West India, the castes which practised female infanticide were...

Infanticide in non-human primates occurs when an individual kills its own or another individual's dependent young. Five hypotheses have been proposed...

burning of witches in the past, to the more recent widespread custom of female infanticide in many societies, to the killing of women for 'honor,' we realize...

measures resulted in a neglect of girls and in some cases led to female infanticide. China did not appear to be systematizing sex-selective fertilization...

of violence against women, murder (dowry deaths, honor killings), female infanticide, sexual crimes (rape, modesty related violence, human trafficking...

attributed to female infanticide, selective abortions (aided by increasing access to prenatal sex discernment procedures), and female child neglect....

Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829, Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856, Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870, and Age of Consent Act, 1891. The Indian constitution...

against the custom of sati. Guru Amar Das also raised his voice against female infanticide. Guru Amar Das had appointed a Sikh woman, named Mai Matho, as head...

of scholarly debate concerning the prevalence of infanticide, more specifically female infanticide in pre-Islamic Arabia. The pre-Islamic era, known...

women to witness the cremations on the ghats of Varanasi, suppressing female infanticide and human sacrifice. Bentinck said, "the dreadful responsibility hanging...

Doodh peeti was a method of female infanticide in which newborn girls were drowned in pails or pits of cow milk (doodh). It is the British government who...

the World is a 2012 documentary film which explores the practice of female infanticide. It was directed by Evan Grae Davis and focused primarily on India...

directed by Manish Jha. The film examines the impact of female feticide and female infanticide on the gender balance and consequently the stability and...

infanticide was a rare or a widely practiced event." There is no agreement about the actual estimates of the frequency of newborn female infanticide in...

and Janagaraj in supporting roles. It is set in a village where female infanticide is prevalent and considered acceptable, but the title character is...

Female infanticide is the killing of newborn female children, while female selective abortion is the terminating of a pregnancy based upon the female...

2003 where he successfully carries out battle against social evil Female infanticide and Thanjavur from 29 May 2004 to 10 January 2005. Radhakrishnan was...

6,000 female children were killed in a span of 2 years during 1987–88, accounting to the single largest instance of recorded female infanticide. A major...

Tiruchirapalli and Thirunelveli. They have been recorded as practising female infanticide as recently as the 1990s. Although the Mukkulathor own significant...