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A Mother's Search 30 Years After Son Was Kidnapped During 1-Child Policy
During the one-child era, the trafficking of young boys was fuelled by parents seeking a son to carry on the family line, experts say. Unwanted girls were often abandoned or sold into sex work, forced marriage or labour.
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As War Grinds On, Syrians Abandon Babies At Mosques, Under Trees
But between early 2021 and late 2022, more than 100 children -- 62 of them girls -- were found abandoned across the country, it said in a March report, estimating the real figure to be much higher.
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Boatman Finds Newborn In Wooden Box Floating In Ganga In Uttar Pradesh
A newborn girl, wrapped in a piece of cloth and a chit declaring her as the "daughter of the Ganga", was found in a wooden box floating in the river at Dadrihhat in Ghazipur.
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Two Baby Girls Found Abandoned At Muzaffarnagar Railway Station
Two female children, aged one and two, were found abandoned at a platform of Muzaffarnagar railway station last evening, Government Railway Police (GRP) said in Muzaffarnagar.
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Baby Girl Abandoned In Roadside Pit Rescued By Cops
The Dahanu police on Monday rescued a newborn girl abandoned in a roadside pit, after some residents informed them. According to police sources, a group of children from Pale Boripada village was playing cricket in the area, when a few of them spotted the baby lying in the pit.
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Pregnant Woman, Given 'Triple Talaq' Over 'Fears' Of Girl Child, Writes To PM Modi
A woman in her third month of pregnancy has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi fearing that her husband will abandon her children and her if she gives birth to another girl. The woman, who is from Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur, is at the end of her first trimester. In her message to the the Prime Minister, she urges him to bring an end to 'Triple...
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Little Girls Bear the Brunt in India's Vicious Cycle of Malnutrition
When Palak was found barely breathing buried under a mound of soil in an impoverished village in Bihar, doctors who treated the abandoned new-born girl knew that nursing her back to health would not be easy.
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China's unwanted babies once mostly girls, now mostly sick, disabled
Fangfang was just a few days old when she was abandoned on a near freezing New Year's Day in north China.
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Two more babies found abandoned in Delhi
In a fresh case, two girls were found abandoned in Bawana area of Delhi. The two girls, aged one and a half and two, were rescued from a canal by the local residents.
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Aligarh father abandons children at railway stations
Three-year-old Suhail does not know why his father abandoned him and his two brothers at different railway stations.On October 6, they had boarded a train with their father. He told them they were going to Delhi. But at Hathras station, he abandoned five-year-old Samir, the eldest kid.One stop later at Madraak, he abandoned the other two boys, Suha...
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A Mother's Search 30 Years After Son Was Kidnapped During 1-Child Policy
During the one-child era, the trafficking of young boys was fuelled by parents seeking a son to carry on the family line, experts say. Unwanted girls were often abandoned or sold into sex work, forced marriage or labour.
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As War Grinds On, Syrians Abandon Babies At Mosques, Under Trees
But between early 2021 and late 2022, more than 100 children -- 62 of them girls -- were found abandoned across the country, it said in a March report, estimating the real figure to be much higher.
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Boatman Finds Newborn In Wooden Box Floating In Ganga In Uttar Pradesh
A newborn girl, wrapped in a piece of cloth and a chit declaring her as the "daughter of the Ganga", was found in a wooden box floating in the river at Dadrihhat in Ghazipur.
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Two Baby Girls Found Abandoned At Muzaffarnagar Railway Station
Two female children, aged one and two, were found abandoned at a platform of Muzaffarnagar railway station last evening, Government Railway Police (GRP) said in Muzaffarnagar.
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Baby Girl Abandoned In Roadside Pit Rescued By Cops
The Dahanu police on Monday rescued a newborn girl abandoned in a roadside pit, after some residents informed them. According to police sources, a group of children from Pale Boripada village was playing cricket in the area, when a few of them spotted the baby lying in the pit.
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Pregnant Woman, Given 'Triple Talaq' Over 'Fears' Of Girl Child, Writes To PM Modi
A woman in her third month of pregnancy has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi fearing that her husband will abandon her children and her if she gives birth to another girl. The woman, who is from Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur, is at the end of her first trimester. In her message to the the Prime Minister, she urges him to bring an end to 'Triple...
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Little Girls Bear the Brunt in India's Vicious Cycle of Malnutrition
When Palak was found barely breathing buried under a mound of soil in an impoverished village in Bihar, doctors who treated the abandoned new-born girl knew that nursing her back to health would not be easy.
-
China's unwanted babies once mostly girls, now mostly sick, disabled
Fangfang was just a few days old when she was abandoned on a near freezing New Year's Day in north China.
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Two more babies found abandoned in Delhi
In a fresh case, two girls were found abandoned in Bawana area of Delhi. The two girls, aged one and a half and two, were rescued from a canal by the local residents.
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Aligarh father abandons children at railway stations
Three-year-old Suhail does not know why his father abandoned him and his two brothers at different railway stations.On October 6, they had boarded a train with their father. He told them they were going to Delhi. But at Hathras station, he abandoned five-year-old Samir, the eldest kid.One stop later at Madraak, he abandoned the other two boys, Suha...
