Killed for being a girl: special film screening ‘It’s a girl’ Sydney Monday

SPECIAL SCREENING November 12: “It’s a Girl”

The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of “gendercide”. Girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls.

The film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of brave mothers fighting to save their daughters’ lives, and of other mothers who would kill for a son.

Before screening commences, writer, speaker, and advocate for women and girls, Melinda Tankard Reist, will say a few words. Melinda is co-founder of Collective Shout: for a world free of sexualisation

Time: 6:15 PM – Tickets $12.50 at the door.

Venue: Hoyts Mandarin Centre Chatswood Level 3 65 Albert Avenue, Chatswood NSW. See the Facebook page here.

Tell World Leaders To End the Female Gendercide in India: sign petition today.

For 6 years, we at The 50 Million Missing Campaign have been working hard to tell the world about the ongoing female gendercide in India which has killed about 50 million women in the country in 3 generations through practices like infanticide, feticide, deliberate starvation and neglect of girl under 6 years, dowry murders, bride ‘trafficking,’ “honor” killings, and “witch” hunts.

It is our goal now to get large global mandate, of at least a million people to demand official accountability and action to stop female genocide in India through the systematic, and accountable implementation of existent laws. Read more here.

See also:

‘It’s a girl: the three deadliest words in the world’, The Independent, January 16, 2012

November 9th, 2012

Tags: female genocide, Girls, India, it's a girl, the 50 million missing: a campaign against india's female genocide

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