Category: india
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Murdering The Future
<a href="http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-14T230956Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-280322-1.xml" >India has killed 10 mln girls in 20 years</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a "national crisis".<br />n<br />nA UNICEF report released this week…
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Child Abuse in India
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060524/wl_csm/oyoung">India tackles child marriages</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Shanta was only 13 when her parents forced her to leave school and married her to a man twice her age. At 15, while most of her peers were in school, she gave birth. Now 17 and emaciated, Shanta is back in her parent's home after her marriage collapsed:…