Female Infanticide, Female Genital Cutting, Honor Killing - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 15
About This Presentation
Title:

Female Infanticide, Female Genital Cutting, Honor Killing

Description:

The Girl Child what do you know? ... a deliberate murder or abandonment of a young girl or infant. ... It involves the abortion of a fetus because it is a girl. ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:3765
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 16
Provided by: inte7
Learn more at: http://www.yapi.org
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Female Infanticide, Female Genital Cutting, Honor Killing


1
Discrimination Against the Girl Child
  • Female Infanticide, Female Genital Cutting, Honor
    Killing

Youth Advocate Program International 4545 42nd
St. NW, Suite 209 Washington DC, 20016,
USA www.yapi.org
2
The Girl Child what do you know?
  • What is discrimination?
  • What examples of discrimination come to mind?
  • Does the United States provide equal
    opportunities for men and womenand girls and
    boys?
  • If the US does provide equal opportunity between
    sexes, how does it do so?
  • Is anyone familiar with the following words
    female infanticide, female genital cutting, honor
    killing?

3
The Girl Child words to know
  • Child The Convention on the Rights of the Child
    (CRC) defines a child as a person under the age
    of 18. A girl child is thus a female younger
    than 18 years of age
  • Discrimination Treatment or consideration based
    on class or category rather than individual
    merit partiality or prejudice.
  • Dowry Money or property that a rides family
    must give to the family of her husband as a
    requirement of marriage.

4
The Girl Child forms of discrimination
  • Female Infanticide The murder of a female
    infant. It occurs often as a deliberate murder
    or abandonment of a young girl or infant.
  • Selective Abortion Also called gender-selective
    abortion, sex-selective abortion, or female
    feticide-selective abortion. It involves the
    abortion of a fetus because it is a girl. Many
    women from communities or cultures with a
    preference for boys practice selective abortion.

5
The Girl Child forms of discrimination
  • Female Genital Cutting (FGC) The practice that
    involves the removal or the alteration of the
    female genitalia. It is a centuries-old practice
    found in many countries among people from various
    religions and beliefs, most prevalent in Africa.
  • Honor Killing The practice of killing girls and
    women who are perceived to have dishonored a
    familys reputation by allegedly engaging in
    sexual activity or other improprieties before or
    outside of marriage. Improper behavior
    justifies grounds for killing. It has expanded
    to include transgressions, which are not
    initiated by the girl, including rape and incest.

6
The Girl Child facts and statistics
  • Currently, 60 million girls are reported as
    missing as a result of infanticide, sex
    selective abortions, and neglect.
  • At least 130 million girls alive today have
    undergone Female Genital Mutilation, and 2
    million more are at risk every year.
  • It is reported that at least 5,000 women and
    girls are murdered each year for honors sake
    by members of their own families.
  • United Nation statistics, national reports and
    studies initiated by non-governmental
    organizations repeatedly show that girls, as a
    group, have lower literacy rates, receive less
    health care, and more impoverished than boys.
  • Source Youth Advocate Program International
    www.yapi.org
  • Source Youth Advocate Program International
    www.yapi.org
  • Source United Nations Childrens Fund
    www.unicef.org
  • Source Amnesty International www.amnesty.org

7
The Girl Child female infanticide
  • What The deliberate killing of a girl child.
  • Who Girl children who are born in societies
    where poverty, overpopulation, and male
    biases are prevalent.
  • Where In regions where poverty and
    overpopulation are prevalent. It
    predominantly occurs in societies where
    girl children are not viewed as economically
    advantageous.
  • Why Lineage, Income, Dowry, Protection,
    Government

8
The Girl Child female infanticide
  • Lakshmis Case Tamil Nadu, India
  • Lakshmi was 20 years old and already had one
    daughter. Upon the arrival of a second girl she
    no option but to kill this second daughter.
    Lakshmi refused to nurse the newborn and to
    silence the infants cries of hunger she fed her
    a poisonous combination of sap and castor oil.
    The baby died soon after.
  • Source
  • Kumar, Sampath, Life for India Baby Girl
    Killers, 17 April, 2003, BBC News,
  • World Edition, (http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_a
    sia/2956065.stm)

According to UNICEF, up to 50 million girls are
missing from Indias population due to the
countrys gender discrimination.
9
The Girl Child female genital cutting
  • What The practice that involves the removal or
    alteration of the
  • female genitalia.
  • Who Young or adolescent girls from cultures
    that believe that
  • FGC will prevent girls from being promiscuous
    and prevent them from engaging in sexual
    intercourse before marriage.
  • Where 28 African countries, Muslim populations,
    Indigenous groups in Central and South
    America.
  • Why Cultural beliefs and attitudes on multiple
    fronts sexual, sociological, hygienic and
    aesthetic, religious
  • Effects
  • Physical Pain, damage to organs, hemorrhage,
    chronic infections, complications with sexual
    intercourse and childbirth.
  • Psychological Shock, anxiety

10
The Girl Child female genital cutting
  • Hannahs Case Ethiopia, East Africa
  • Hannah was genitally cut when she was eight years
    old. She knew little about the procedure, but
    understood it to be a ritual, a ceremony, a
    process that would allow her to become a woman.
    Six women held Hannah down to perform the
    procedure. There was no anesthesia or pain
    medication at any point during the procedure, and
    Hannah almost lost consciousness because of the
    immense pain. The practitioner was then paid the
    equivalent of one dollar for the procedure.
  • SourceUNICEF, www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiop
    ia_18246.html

Approximately 54 of girls in Ethiopia are
subjected to FGC. There is no national action
plan to fight against this abuse.
11
The Girl Child honor killing
  • What Killing of women that can be defined as
    acts of murder in which a woman is killed for
    her actual or perceived immoral behavior.
  • Who Women who have failed to keep marriage
    contracts, refused to agree to arranged
    marriages, requested divorce, flirted with men
    other then their husbands, or for allowing
    themselves to be raped.
  • Where Most prominent in the Middle East,
    Southwest Asia, and Northwest Africa.
  • Why For violating sexual norms or being victims
    of rape or other sexual rumor. This is a custom
    where women are treated as property and business
    contracts.

12
The Girl Child honor killing
  • Rainas Case Jordan, Southwest Asia
  • Raina Arafat was twenty-one years old and did not
    want to marry the man her family had chosen for
    her. She Was secretly seeing her Iraqi boyfriend
    whom she wanted to elope with. Her aunts told
    her they had arranged a secret meeting between
    the two and brought her to an open patch of land
    in the suburb of Amman. Her aunts walked away
    and let her brother, Rami, shoot her in the back
    of her head. Rainas crime was being in love
    with a man that was not sanctioned by her family
    and cultural ideals.
  • Source Gendercide Watch, http//gendercide.org/ca
    se_honour.html

Men who kill women for the sake of honor in
Jordan are usually sentenced to only a few months
in jail. They serve even less time if they hold
minor status.
13
The Girl Child discussion
  • What are three reasons why women face prejudice
    around the world?
  • Do you think that equal education of girls and
    boys would provide more equal rights and less
    discrimination against girls?
  • Who should be in charge of making changes
    regarding the issues we have discussed today?
  • Why do you think people continue to commit these
    acts, even though there are laws against them in
    some places?
  • What do you think you can do to help?

14
The Girl Child what can you do?
  • Educate yourself about the rights of the Girl
    Child.
  • Contact local, state, and national politicians.
  • Write letters asking for their opinion on the
    rights of the Girl Child.
  • Talk to your parents about the CRC.
  • Educate the adults in your life!
  • Advocate for awareness of the CRC.
  • Begin a social awareness/ human rights club.

15
The Girl Child for more information
  • UN High Commission on Human Rights
  • www.unhcr.org
  • UNICEF
  • www.unicef.org
  • Amnesty International
  • www.amnesty.org
  • Youth Advocate Program International
  • www.yapi.org
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com