CNUCED /UNCTAD, 28EME Session extraordinaire pour le commerce et le développement - Genève (Suisse)

Communication Unit of CEREPPOL - Brussels, 23.06.2014

Now available on our website at www.cereppol.eu the last issue on UNCTAD's conference at United Nations in Geneva, on Friday 17 June, 2014. See our paper on the necessity to give UNCTAD's members the right to change the role between developing countries and industrialized ones. A better development for all in the world is the best way to make inclusiveness a step toward wellness for disadvantaged populations in many regions.

CNUCED /UNCTAD, 28EME Session extraordinaire pour le commerce et le développement - Genève (Suisse)

Press box of Christian Imbert, Chairman of CEREPPOL org.

India’s 2013 gendercide facts: how would European cope with sex extermination if this was the future issue in EU policy regulation?

Brussels, Friday, 25 October 2013 

"Despite strong economic growth, gender inequality remains a major problem in India. An international attention over the years has yet given measurable effects on practice of sex-selective abortions. A lot of knowledge on sex discrimination in India has been accumulated over the past 20 years. 

Detailed statistics from official sources describe several aspects of sex abortion practices. At this time, since 2011, census has showed a real decline of the number of girls under the age of 6/7. Facts speak for themselves: for every 1,000 boys India’s statistics have declined from 976 to 914 in 2011.This tends to prove that India’s ratio of young girl to boys is one of the worst after China.

Today, the practice of female infanticide is still a problem in some Indian regions like the West provinces, but we must consider also that a high mortality ratio still exists too." (...)

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