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10/28/03: Factual Aspect FD.1: Infanticide:

Sex Ratio in India a Concern
New Delhi - A disturbing and steady decline has occurred in the ratio between Indian girls to boys born in the past decade, according to a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report published on Tuesday.
Several thousand girls and women are "missing", the UNFPA study said, referring to those who should have been part of the population but are not because they were killed for being female.
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