Female Genocide in India: and the 50 Million Missing Campaign

First published in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Issue 22, October 2009

Female Genocide in India
and the 50 Million Missing Campaign

Even before I had initiated ‘The 50 Million Missing Campaign’ in December 2006, it was clear that one of the toughest challenges for the campaign would be to overcome public skepticism both within and outside India, about the veracity of its claim. How could fifty million plus women just disappear from a country in a period that spans less than a century? That number is about the size of the entire populations of Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Portugal put together.

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