Female Infanticide: Philosophy, Perspective and Concern of SIRD

Abstract

Violence is a state, of exploitation, discrimination, upholding of unequal economic and social structures, the creation of an atmosphere of terror, threat or reprisal and forms of religio-cultural and political violence [1] It can be perpetrated by those in power against the powerless or by the powerless in retaliation against coercion by others. Gender violence is deeply entrenched in almost all cultures. Its forms are: different, unequal and discriminatory treatment by the family as well as the state, such as discrimination in health care, education, access to food, right to resources, gender division of labor, gender discriminatory values against women, etc. Extreme forms of gender discrimination are female infanticide and foeticide, and the selection of sex before conception.