India

• Baby girls have been killed or abandoned

  Sons carry family name and care for parents

  Girls are burdens with large dowry payments

  Daughters neglected if they have brothers
• Richer families - husbands force abortions
• Boys outnumber girls - lack of brides
• 47% of girls married before 18
• 5,000 burnt to death in kitchen accidents due to insufficient dowry payments
• 7,000 dowry related deaths in 2005, aged 15-34
• >30% of 15-19 are married
• Worldwide 14 million women between 15 - 19 give birth a year
• Private clinics give sex determining ultrasounds and abortions up to 20 weeks
• 10 day celebration when boys are born
• 500,000 girls terminated in last 20 years
• 14.3 subjected to modern slavery in India in 2014 e.g sexual exploitation
• Village women taught skills to earn own money
• Prohibition of Marriage act in 2006 (Widely disregarded)
• Protection of Women from Domestic Violence act in 2005
• Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace act and rules in 2013
• Indian Ministry of Home Affairs Anti-Trafficking portal in 2014
• Increased number of police in 2014 in outer districts of cities to reduce rale and molestation cases