WUNRN
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT - DRAFT REPORT
GENDERCIDE: THE MISSING WOMEN?
Including Motion for a European
Parliament Resolution
Excerpts:
A. Whereas "gendercide" is
a sex-neutral term referring to the systematic, deliberate and gender-selective
mass killing of people (either male or female) belonging to a particular sex
(or gender) reported to be a rising problem in several countries, taking also
the forms of infanticide and lethal violence against a particular gender at any
stage of life; whereas gender roles have lethal consequences analogous to those
of racial, religious and class prejudice;
B. Whereas, despite recent
legislation against sex-selective practices, girls are to a disproportionate
degree the target of ruthless sexual discrimination, often extended to include
the unborn, predetermined baby girl foetus, which is aborted, abandoned or
killed, for no other reason than the fact that it is female;
E. Whereas in Asia, and especially
in China, India and Vietnam, there are particularly distorted sex ratios;
whereas in 2012, 113 boys were born for every 100 girls in China, and 112 boys
were born for every 100 girls in India and Vietnam;
F. Whereas in Europe, there are
particularly distorted sex rations in some coutries, given that, in 2012, 112
boys were born for every 100 girls in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia;
The European Parliament
1. Calls on governments to work
proactively to prohibit any sex-selective practices;
2. Stresses that gendercide remains
a crime and a severe violation of human rights that necessitates effective ways
to address and uproot all its fundamental causes leading to "son
preference" cultures;
3. Underlines that any family or
societal pressure on women to pursue sex-selective abortion is considered a
form of psychological violence according to the Council of Europe Convention on
preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, and to
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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GENDERCIDE: THE
MISSING WOMEN?
Date : 02-05-2013 - Antigoni PAPADOPOULOU
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