From the U.N. Study: "Preference for boys leads to criminal infanticide of girls; in India culture, poverty and ignorance lead to the smothering or poisoning of baby girls. Selective abortion according to sex occurs in various countries." "Early Islam forbade female infanticide and this principle must be maintained and pursued by states today to combat all forms of discrimination against women."

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Women's NGO'S
European Women’s Lobby (EWL)
Guild of Service
UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva
UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
WOMANKIND Worldwide

Human Rights NGO'S
Rights and Democracy–Droits et Democratie
Human Rights Without Frontiers Int (HRWF Int.)
Human Strategies for Human Rights (HSHR)
Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (PWESCR)
UN NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Geneva
UN NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief, New York

Religions & Associations

Academic Institutions
Fatima Seedat

Civil Society

Governments
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

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