Award winning campaign to end India's genocide of women due to feticide, infanticide, dowry murders, honor killings. Founder @Rita_Banerji
Mar 8, 2018 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
For #IWD2018 a look at why Prime Minister Modi's #BetiBachaoBetiPadhao (Educate girls to Save them) program will not stop India's mass #femicide until these issues are addressed. Link & THREAD. opendemocracy.net/5050/rita-bane…1/ Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padao’ (Save the Girl, Educate the Girl) programme, launched in January 2015, was the first time since India's independence in 1947 that the Indian government had raised the issue of female genocide in a public campaign.
Dec 9, 2017 • 53 tweets • 117 min read
In Delhi a 11 month old girl died because the hospital refused to treat her without an #Aadhaar card.
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In Chandigarh, a woman was refused #abortion because she did not have an Aadhaar. She sought a back alley abortion and suffered extreme bleeding and complications.