India rights campaign for infanticide mothers
Human right groups fighting the practice of female infanticide in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have launched a new campaign. They are now coming to the aid of mothers found guilty of killing their new-born babies. Surveys indicate that 16 new-born girls in every 1,000 in Tamil Nadu are killed. But rights campaigners say the mother of an unwanted girl child is as much a victim as the baby. Killing baby girls soon after birth is widely practised in poor southern districts of the state, with some areas reporting 15% deaths among female babies.
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