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Petition via Facebook: http://www.causes.com/causes/74219-the-50-million-missing-a-campaign-against-india-s-female-genocide/actions/1658138
INDIA - CAMPAIGN AGAINST FEMALE
GENOCIDE - FEMICIDE
Organization Description:
The
50 Million Missing is an online, global campaign to end the ongoing female
genocide (femicide) in
In
three generations more than 50 million women have been selectively eliminated
from India’s population through practices like female feticide, infanticide,
intentional starvation and neglect of girls-under-five, dowry related murders,
honor killings, "witch hunts" and the highest maternal mortality rate
in the world precipitated by serial pregnancies and illegal female fetal
abortions under unsafe conditions in the hankering for sons. This femicide is
occurring across all sections of Indian society, irrespective of class,
education, economics, religion and community.
The
50 Million Missing Campaign focuses on raising awareness and fostering public
participation and discussions on issues that are contributing to
The
Campaign is currently focusing on a four-pronged approach to pushing for its
cause. This approach has come about through careful analysis of the situation
through research, observation and a gender survey:
1)
The dissemination of information to the public about the female genocide and
what it entails. This included online information through its blogs as well as
The Voice of The Campaign (VOC) Project. The VOC project actively seeks
volunteer speakers around world, and provides them with a ready to use slide
presentation and lecture, to address audiences at colleges, universities,
women’s groups, neighborhoods and homes.
2)
focusing on the elimination of the practice of dowry which the campaign
recognizes as a fundamental factor contributing to feticide, infanticide,
under-5 mortality, and dowry murders. See the "War on Dowry" project.
3)
focusing directly on and challenging traditional social attitudes to gender,
gender-based roles and gender relationships in Indian society.
4)
lobbying through an online global petition for government and international
commitment for accountability, and implementation of existent laws pertaining
to dowry, dowry "deaths", feticide and infanticide.