About 2.4 million girls die in India every 12 years because they are neglected more than boys. Studies have shown that Indian girls receive less attention, nutrition, and education than their male counterparts. Under natural conditions, in countries with no bias against females, females tend to live longer than males, so it’s apparent that what India is doing is wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/15/warning-sounded-over-chinas-debtbook-diplomacy China’s “debtbook diplomacy” uses strategic debts to gain political leverage with economically vulnerable countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the US state department has been warned in an independent report. The academic report, from graduate students of the Harvard Kennedy school of policy analysis, was independently prepared for the state department to view and assessed the impact of China’s… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/may/15/discrimination-deaths-girls-under-five-india-lancet-study Hundreds of thousands of young girls in India die every year because of “invisible discrimination”, according to research published in the Lancet Global Health. Researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis estimate an average of 239,000 girls under five in India die each year, or 2.4 million in a decade, because of their gender. Many of the deaths… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/16/sherpa-guide-conquers-everest-for-record-22nd-time A veteran Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 22nd time, setting a record for the most climbs of the world’s highest mountain. Kami Rita reached the summit on Wednesday morning with a team of foreign climbers and a fellow Sherpa guide, and was already safely descending to a lower camp by the afternoon, said Gyanendra Shrestha, a government… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/18/imprisoned-threatened-silenced-human-rights-workers-across-asia-are-in-danger In February, hundreds of Filipino participants in the peace process, environmental activists and human rights defenders were labeled “terrorists” by their own government. The security of the individuals on this list is at stake, and some have fled the Philippines. The UN independent expert on the rights of indigenous peoples – Victoria Tauli-Corpuz – was on this list…. Read more »
[embeddoc url=”https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/asia/india-sexual-violence-intl/index.html” download=”all”] Recently, a young 8 year old girl, who was watching horses, was abducted and held inside a house for several days. Her body was later found. Police say she has been taken to a temple, where she had been raped multiple times and then killed. Although some do believe that the 8 men committed the murder, others… Read more »
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