Missing Girls: The Evil of Female Infanticide in South Asia

Words by Vishavjeet Dhaliwal

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Missing Girls: The Evil of Female Infanticide in South Asia

Across the world, millions of girls are missing. They haven’t fled their homes, or been abducted. Many of them haven’t even been born yet. These missing girls are the result of sex-selective abortions and female infanticide, the act of killing newborn girls. And nowhere in the world is the shortfall of women higher than in China and South Asia.