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Female Infanticide Worldwide: The case for action by the UN Human Rights Council
There is an urgent need to mobilise the UN, other multilateral organisations and
the member States of the UN for more proactive actions to address the menace
of the “missing girls” worldwide. The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
should adopt a resolution, interalia, to ensure that the issue of female infanticide
is given due attention in the work of all human rights mechanisms including the
UN Human Rights Council and its relevant processes and mechanisms such as
the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review, the UN Treaty bodies
etc. The resolution should mandate the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights to organize an expert workshop to review and discuss the impact
of existing strategies and initiatives to address female infanticide and to make
recommendations for further action by States and the international community
towards the full implementation of human rights obligations with respect to
female infanticide and prepare a report on the deliberations held during the
workshop and submit it to the UNHRC which should consider inclusion of
female infanticide as an agenda item of the UNHRC sessions.
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