March 31, 2013

Because We Are Girls…

It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century.

More girls are killed in this routine ‘gendercide’ in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.

-Nicholas D. Kristof in Half the Sky

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For additional reading:

Saving the World’s Woman, New York Times, 2009

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