 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 12: Female feticide is one of the extreme manifestations of violence against women. More than 35-40 million girl children have been killed in India in past few decades and worldwide, more than 117 million girl children are being killed every year.
This is giving rise to a skewed male female ratio and leading to many other forms of crimes against women. But all these figures are being kept under wraps, to save Criminal Justice Systems, which otherwise would collapse, if perpetrators get punished.
This was the major thrust of the session on "Crimes against women" in 14th United Nations Crime Congress, in which Rameshwar Singh Jamwal, President Criminologists Society of J&K and Prof. Shashi Manhas, HOD, Home Science Department, University of Jammu, were the speakers.
The conference is being attended by heads of States and Ministers, Ambassadors, and top Police and Judicial officers from more than 200 countries. Important organizations like UNDP, European Union, OIC, World Bank, IMF, Interpol, Red Cross, and many leading NGO's and individual experts are also attending the conference which comes to an end today.
Prof. Shashi Manhas read out the figures of declining sex ratio in different states and listed various social, economic, religious, legal factors while Jamwal suggested an innovative way to control this kind of peculiar behaviour, which cannot be explained by any Criminological School or theory.
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