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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10938

9 October 2013
PLENARY OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT / (ae) women
Parliament attacks “gendercide”

Brussels, 08/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament has launched an attack on “gendercide” and, on 8 October, adopted a resolution to tackle the “deliberate and gender-based mass killing of people belonging to a particular sex”. “Femicide” is the most visible form as recent estimates suggest there are approximately 200 million women “missing” from the world's population. These missing women have been the victims of selective abortions, infanticide or child neglect....

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