STOP GENDERCIDE NOW
The lethal bias against baby girls
Stop gendercide now

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Why sign the petition?

100 million baby girls are missing - and the number is rising. They were aborted or killed at birth. Why? Because of a preference for baby boys.

It is a human rights violation on a massive scale perhaps the most widespread form of violent anti-female discrimination in the world today.

The mission of the Stop Gendercide Now Campaign is to highlight the fact that so many baby girls have disappeared through abortion, infanticide, or neglect and to work for political change to remedy this.

By signing the petition, you’ll be joining others in sending a strong message to the leaders of countries like China and India, which have deplorable records in defending the rights of baby girls, born and unborn. Your voice can really make a difference – please sign the petition today!

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Background to the Stop Gendercide Now Campaign

The number of baby girls’ lives lost through gendercide has risen sharply as cultural pressures against the birth of baby girls are reinforced by harsh inhumane traditions, coercive population control policies as well as political ideologies.

As a result of this, 100 million baby girls who should have been born have been aborted, killed or left to die. It is a human rights violation on a massive scale.

Boy-preference leading to dramatically fewer baby girls being born and surviving is concentrated primarily in China but also in India and other countries.

The mass destruction of girls has produced a systemic gender imbalance in whole populations for example; there are more unmarried young men in China than the entire population of young men in America.

The Stop Gendercide Now petition puts pressure on the governments of countries with significant sex ratio imbalances:

  • To introduce measures to ensure that the killing, fatal neglect or abandonment of baby girls because they are girls is ended.
  • To carry out and publish an annual audit giving the sex ratio, the measures put in place to address it, and the progress or otherwise of these measures.

The Stop Gendercide Now petition will also be copied to the Secretary General of the United Nations calling on the UN to adopt a meaningfully proactive leadership role in ending the horrific practice of signalling out baby girls for abortion and infanticide.

Many steps can be taken. Initiatives can be developed to encourage education for girls: reform of laws and customs that exclude or disadvantage daughters in property inheritance; facilitation of women’s participation in all dimensions of public life; requiring family planning officials, midwives and hospitals to publish the birth sex ratios, and reward advances towards the normal balance of girls to boys.

For further information, visit the following link
The Economist – Gendercide – The War on Baby Girls 4th March 2010.

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STOP GENDERCIDE NOW
The lethal bias against baby girls
Stop gendercide now
PETITION

To: President of the People's Republic of China

To: Prime Minister of India

Copy to: Secretary General of the United Nations


Dear President and Prime Minister,

We, the undersigned, members of the international community, are shocked and disturbed at the continued practice of selective abortion, infanticide and fatal neglect of baby girls after birth in your country. The imbalance in your national sex ratio indicates the scale of the lethal bias against baby girls.

We call on you to address policies and practices, traditions and cultural attitudes that are producing and reinforcing the preference for baby boys over baby girls in your country.

We are particularly disturbed at the manner in which ideological population control policies, and the family planning personnel implementing them, are reinforcing the cultural attitudes of bias against baby girls.

We call on your government

  • To measure and publish the sex ratio regularly.
  • To put in place legal and cultural measures to stop the practice of Gendercide, and
  • To carry out, and publish an annual audit giving the sex ratio, the measures put in place to address it, and the progress or otherwise of these measures.

We appeal to you to do everything within your power to end this unjust practice urgently.

Yours faithfully,

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The Stop Gendercide Now Campaign is an initiative of the Pro Life Campaign Ireland, 104, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. The Pro Life Campaign is a non-denominational lobby group, drawing its support from a cross-section of Irish society. The Campaign promotes pro-life education and defends human life at all stages, from conception to natural death. For further information visit www.prolifecampaign.ie. For information on this initiative, email stopgendercidenow@prolifecampaign.ie.