This document discusses the plight of girl children in India and calls for action. It notes that female infanticide and feticide are still prevalent practices, with sex ratios as low as 896 girls born for every 1000 boys nationally and 754 in some parts of India. Girl children face discrimination, prejudices, lack of medical care and proper nutrition. They are often killed in the womb or shortly after birth through methods like poisoning, suffocation or starvation. It calls on influential groups in society like local leaders, health professionals, NGOs and journalists to take action through influencing attitudes, ethical guidelines, advocacy networks and investigative reporting to end gender discrimination and the pre-birth elimination of females. The goal is for India

1. My dear Brothers & Sisters

2. Request your complete attention for the next
few minutes.. Please!!

3. Promising yet gloomy,
Hopeful, yet in despair!
Welcome to the world of GIRL CHILD
God’s greatest gift to mankind

4. This
is the
Heart that
nurtures you!

5. This is the hand that feeds your
hunger and rocks your cradle…

6. This is the giver of unconditional love…

7. She is the reason that you are living…

9. She is the tragic irony of fate, where such a
beautiful creation “SHE” is today one of the
gravest concerns facing humanity!!!

10. Traditions and rituals outline the existence
of the girl Child!!!

11. Our World uproars of gender equality and law
enforcement , though the fact remains
unchanged…
female infants are still found dumped in
trash, While unborn fetuses continue to
be sniffed in the womb…
by the millions!!!

12. Hustled by discrimination
Prejudiced by rituals
Twisted and turned by customs
&
A victim to chauvinism
Such is how a Girl child is dealt,
starting from her birth in the womb
to the dark of her life to death!!!

13. Motherhood is a boon….
But, Murders happen in the
womb…
Brutal killing of female
infanticide and feticide is
done in the womb….

14. You were also born to a Woman…
How can you kill her?

15. National sex ratio
In 1961, 976 girls born for every 1000 boys
In 2001, 927 girls born for every 1000 boys
And Today
896 girls born for every 1000 boys
Horrifying fact is that it is as low as 754 girls
born for every 1000 boys in many parts of India

16. SHOCKING FACTS
• Lacing their feed with pesticides
• Forcing down a few grains of poppy seeds or rice husk down the
throat
• Stuffing their mouths with black salt or urea
• Starving them to death
• Suffocating them with wet towel or bag of sand
• No or fewer months of breast feeding
• No medical or health care
• No proper food
• Rubbing of poison on the mother’s breast so that the baby girl is
poisoned as she suckles
FAR WORSE IS THE PREVALENCE OF FEMALE INFANTICIDE

17. This is a DANGEROUS yet silent national emergency...

18. Is a Woman SAFE in today’s society?

19. Prevalent Attitude

20. Horrific Crimes

21. Extent of Brutality

22. Child Marriages

23. Sexual Harassment

24. Eve Teasing

25. Trafficking

26. Increased number of rape victims

27. Who can help? What can we do?

28. Influential people of the Society: As local leaders, you have the
power to influence people and motivate them to move in the right
direction.
Health Care Professionals: Provide guidelines for ethical practices
NGO’s, Social Activists, Woman‘s groups: You have the power to
form and stimulate the formation of powerful coalitions and
networks.
Journalists: As a media personnel you can create or challenge any
opinion through investigations and reporting.
And You!!!!

29. Let US Join hands
To end pre-birth elimination of females and all forms of gender
discrimination

31. A World that is unsafe for a WOMAN..
is not safe for ANYONE!!!

32. “INDIA , A NATION WHICH TREATS WOMEN
WITH HIGH RESPECT AND DIVINITY”
Please Honor & Save this fading fact of our Nation
DESIGNED & CREATED BY ARUN TEJ
as an abet to a Hyderabad based NGO, working towards the say “Stop Violence Against Women”
ARUN TEJ – BRANDING & COMMUNICATIONS – GEMINI NETWORK CHANNELS- SUN TV NETWORK- HYDERABAD
aruntej@sunnetworkdotin, +91 9849 55 1539