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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10938
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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