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Female Infanticide, Female Genital Cutting, Honor Killing


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What is discrimination?

What examples of discrimination come to mind?

Does the United States provide equalopportunities for men and womenand girlsand boys?

If the US does provide equal opportunitybetween sexes, how does it do so?

Is anyone familiar with the following words:female infanticide, female genital cutting, honorkilling?


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Child: The Convention on the Rights of theChild (CRC) defines a child as a personunder the age of 18. A girl child is thus afemale younger than 18 years of age

Discrimination: Treatment or considerationbased on class or category rather thanindividual merit; partiality or prejudice.

Dowry:Money or property that a ridesfamily must give to the family of herhusband as a requirement of marriage.

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Female Infanticide: The murder of a female infant. Itoccurs often as a deliberate murder or abandonmentof a young girl or infant.

Selective Abortion: Also called gender-selectiveabortion, sex-selective abortion, or female feticide-selective abortion. It involves the abortion of a fetusbecause it is a girl. Many women from communitiesor cultures with a preference for boys practiceselective abortion.

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Female GenitalCutting(FGC): The practice thatinvolves the removal or the alteration of the femalegenitalia. It is a centuries-old practice found in many

countries among people from various religions andbeliefs, most prevalent in Africa.

onor Killing: The practice of killing girls and womenwho are perceived to have dishonored a familys

reputation by allegedly engaging in sexual activity orother improprieties before or outside of marriage.Improper behavior justifies grounds for killing. It hasexpanded to include transgressions, which are notinitiated by the girl, including rape and incest.

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Currently, 60 million girls are reported as missing as aresult of infanticide, sex selective abortions, and neglect.

At least 130 million girls alive today have undergone

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utilation, and 2 million more are at riskevery year.

It is reported that at least 5,000 women and girls aremurdered each year for honors sake by members of theirown families.

United Nation statistics, national reports and studiesinitiated by non-governmental organizations repeatedlyshow that girls, as a group, have lower literacy rates, receiveless health care, and more impoverished than boys.

Source: Youth Advocate Program International: www.yapi.orgSource: Youth Advocate Program International: www.yapi.orgSource: United Nations Childrens Fund: www.unicef.orgSource: Amnesty International: www.amnesty.org

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What: The deliberate killing of a girl child.

Who: Girl children who are born in societies

where poverty, overpopulation, andmale biases are prevalent.

Where: In regions where poverty andoverpopulation are prevalent. Itpredominantly occurs in societieswhere girl children are not viewed aseconomically advantageous.

Why: Lineage, Income, Dowry, Protection,Government


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Lakshmis Case: Tamil Nadu, India

Lakshmi was 20 years old and already had

one daughter. Upon the arrival of a second

girl she no option but to kill this second

daughter. Lakshmi refused to nurse the

newborn and to silence the infants cries of

hunger she fed her a poisonous combination

of sap and castor oil. The baby died soon

after.

Source:

Kumar, Sampath, Life for India Baby Girl Killers, 17 April, 2003, BBC News,

World Edition, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2956065.stm)

According to UNICEF, up to 50 million girls are missing from Indias

population due to the countrys gender discrimination.

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What: The practice that involves the removal or alteration of thefemale genitalia.

Who: Young or adolescent girls from cultures that believe that

FGC will prevent girls from being promiscuous andprevent them from engaging in sexual intercoursebefore marriage.

Where: 28 African countries, Muslim populations, Indigenousgroups in Central and South America.

Why: Cultural beliefs and attitudes on multiple fronts: sexual,

sociological, hygienic and aesthetic, religious Effects:

Physical ~ Pain, damage to organs, hemorrhage, chronicinfections, complications with sexual intercourse andchildbirth.

Psychological ~ Shock, anxiety

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Hannah was genitally cut when she waseight years old. She knew little about the

procedure, but understood it to be a ritual, aceremony, a process that would allow her tobecome a woman. Six women heldHannahdown to perform the procedure. There wasno anesthesia or pain medication at anypoint during the procedure, andHannahalmost lost consciousness because of the

immense pain. The practitioner was thenpaid the equivalent of one dollar for theprocedure.

Source:UNICEF, www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiopia_18246.html

Approximately 54% of girls in Ethiopia are subjected to FGC.

There is no national action plan to fight against this abuse.


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What: Killing of women that can be defined as acts ofmurder in which a woman is killed for her actual orperceived immoral behavior.

Who: Women who have failed to keep marriage contracts,refused to agree to arranged marriages, requesteddivorce, flirted with men other then their husbands, orfor allowing themselves to be raped.

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Why: For violating sexual norms or being victims of rape orother sexual rumor. This is a custom where women aretreated as property and business contracts.

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RainasCase: Jordan,Southwest Asia

Raina Arafat was twenty-one years old anddid not want to marry the man her familyhad chosen for her. She Was secretly seeingher Iraqi boyfriend whom she wanted toelope with. Her aunts told her they hadarranged a secret meeting between the twoand brought her to an open patch of land inthe suburb of Amman. Her aunts walkedaway and let her brother, Rami, shoot her inthe back of her head. Rainas crime wasbeing in love with a man that was not

sanctioned by her family and cultural ideals.Source: Gendercide Watch, http://gendercide.org/case_honour.html

Men who kill women for the sake of honor in Jordan are usually sentenced to

only a few months in jail. They serve even less time if they hold minor status.

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What are three reasons why women face prejudicearound the world?

Do you think that equal education of girls and boys

would provide more equal rights and lessdiscrimination against girls?

Who should be in charge of making changesregarding the issues we have discussed today?

Why do you think people continue to commit theseacts, even though there are laws against them in someplaces?

What do you think you can do to help?

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Educate yourself about the rights of the Girl Child.

Contactlocal, state, and national politicians.

Write letters asking for their opinion on the rights of theGirl Child.

Talkto your parents about the CRC. Educate the adults in your life!

Advocate for awareness of the CRC. Begin a social awareness/ human rights club.

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hild for more informationUNHigh Commission onHuman Rights

www.unhcr.org

UNICEF

www.unicef.org

Amnesty International

www.amnesty.org

Youth Advocate Program International

www.yapi.org

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