India fourth dangerous country for women due to female foeticide

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Pakhi Hussain

15 June, 2011

India has been called the fourth most dangerous country in the world as even today it is a nation tormented with female foeticides. A country to have achieved great heights still lacks gravely in this area.

THE FILM ‘Matribhoomi: a nation without women’ was truly a futuristic film as it showed the Indian future unbalanced owing to sex ration in the country. Reality is not far behind as the survey conducted by the UK-based Thompson Reuters Foundation termed India to be the fourth most dangerous country in the world for women, and this result is basically due to the distorted sex ratio. Thanks to female foeticide we are a nation, where the sex ratio is going haywire.

The top most country to be the most dangerous land for women is Afghanistan followed by Congo and Pakistan. Afghanistan garnered the top place in the survey due to its history of violence, poor healthcare and high level of poverty. Congo, on the other hand, is notorious for the rising number of rapes, which makes it the second most dangerous for women to live.

Apart from female foeticide, India faces women trafficking, economical discrimination as well as sexual violence, domestic abuse, non-sexual violence and harmful practices rooted in culture among other things. The survey was conducted on 213 experts from five continents to list down their perceptions and rank countries keeping the above parameters in mind.

The poll declared, “India ranked fourth primarily due to female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking.” In 2009, Madhukar Gupta, the Indian Home Secretary categorically said that 100 million people in India was involved in human trafficking. In the same year the CBI also estimated a figure that said that there were three million prostitutes in the country, and 40 per cent of them were children. The UN Population Fund also gave their input into the matter and said, “In India, upto 50 million girls were thought to be 'missing' over the past century due to female infanticide and foeticide.”

It is high time that the people understand what they are doing when they are having an abortion just because it is a girl foetus or having an illegal sex test of the foetus. In order for us to not end up in a situation a shown in the film Matrabhoomi, we must act responsibly.