Enbarnspolitik och saknade kvinnor : en fallstudie av rätten till liv i Indien
(2007)Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- It is not unusual that women and children fall behind in development countries. It is not even unusual that these groups are exposed to all forms of discrimination due to the countries lack of capacity to erase poverty. We also know that women and children in a larger extent suffers from the shortage of proper health conditions. India is one of these countries. It is a country where women even before birth are exposed to discriminatory family planning. The fear of population bombs has, forces parents to sex-selective methods that are a crime against women's right to life. Female infanticide and female foetucide has become more then a trend. It has become a socially accepted tradition all over the country, in all levels of society.
India... (More) - It is not unusual that women and children fall behind in development countries. It is not even unusual that these groups are exposed to all forms of discrimination due to the countries lack of capacity to erase poverty. We also know that women and children in a larger extent suffers from the shortage of proper health conditions. India is one of these countries. It is a country where women even before birth are exposed to discriminatory family planning. The fear of population bombs has, forces parents to sex-selective methods that are a crime against women's right to life. Female infanticide and female foetucide has become more then a trend. It has become a socially accepted tradition all over the country, in all levels of society.
India today faces the dilemma of introducing the one-child family policy. By looking at the Chinese experience of increased sex-selective family planning it is not hard to see that this policy would have a dramatic effect especially in the human rights status of women.
This paper argument that introducing the one-child family policy is a quick-fix solution and that the policy only would solve the symptom but not the underlying disease. The paper offers two human rights friendly solutions to the population problem: the demographic transition and evolving empowerment programs. Both of these solution packages involve developing a sustainable non discriminatory environment where all levels of society are treated. (Less)
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- author
- Hagander, Maria
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2007
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- befolkningspolitik, födelsekontroll, familjeplaneringsåtgärder, diskriminering, kvinnor, Indien, Gender studies, Genusvetenskap, Human rights, Mänskliga rättigheter, Demography, Demografi
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1321112
- date added to LUP
- 2007-06-07 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:50
@misc{1321112,
abstract = {{It is not unusual that women and children fall behind in development countries. It is not even unusual that these groups are exposed to all forms of discrimination due to the countries lack of capacity to erase poverty. We also know that women and children in a larger extent suffers from the shortage of proper health conditions. India is one of these countries. It is a country where women even before birth are exposed to discriminatory family planning. The fear of population bombs has, forces parents to sex-selective methods that are a crime against women's right to life. Female infanticide and female foetucide has become more then a trend. It has become a socially accepted tradition all over the country, in all levels of society.
India today faces the dilemma of introducing the one-child family policy. By looking at the Chinese experience of increased sex-selective family planning it is not hard to see that this policy would have a dramatic effect especially in the human rights status of women.
This paper argument that introducing the one-child family policy is a quick-fix solution and that the policy only would solve the symptom but not the underlying disease. The paper offers two human rights friendly solutions to the population problem: the demographic transition and evolving empowerment programs. Both of these solution packages involve developing a sustainable non discriminatory environment where all levels of society are treated.}},
author = {{Hagander, Maria}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Enbarnspolitik och saknade kvinnor : en fallstudie av rätten till liv i Indien}},
year = {{2007}},
}