Palash Kumar
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/ 14 December 2006

Minister: India kills 10-million girls in 20 years

Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a ”national crisis”. A United Nations Children’s Fund report released this week said 7 000 fewer girls are born in the country every day than the global average would suggest.