16 Days of Activism - Day 6

Gendercide is gender-selective mass killing. The term was first used by Mary Anne Warren in her 1985 book, Gendercide: The Implications of Sex Selection.

Link on gender-based genocide:

http://www.gendercide.org/what_is_gendercide.html

"Honour" killings of women can be defined as acts of murder in which "a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior."  More information about this practice:

http://www.gendercide.org/case_honour.html

In all cases, specifically female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in most parts of the world; it is arguably the most brutal and destructive manifestation of the anti-female bias that pervades "patriarchal" societies. It is closely linked to the phenomena of sex-selective abortion, which targets female fetuses almost exclusively, and neglect of girl children.

On China/India female infanticide:
http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html

More information concerning the millions of Latina and Indigenous women and girl children trapped by criminal sexual exploitation today:

http://www.libertadlatina.org/Index.htm