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You can save the Girl Child Here's your chance to join our on going fifht against female infanticide. Do you know of an incident you want to report? Do you want to help out? Here are a few places you can start ONLINE WATCHDOG Log on to www.indianfemalefoeticide.org to report on errant doctors/maternity homes/ultra sound clinics/relatives/friends participating in female foeticide. You could be anonymous or request secrecy. The website is owned by Datamation Foundation, which advocates against pre-birth elimination of female foetuses. The Foundation has both an online and affline initiative that successfully makes use of the e-mail, internet, and other information-sharing strategies to actively promote legal measures banning selective sex tests, which usually result in aborting female foetuses. with technical support from UNICEF, UNFPA, population council, the ministry of "It is easy to call female foeticide a social evil Communication and infomation technology(Govt of India), and Plan International, the site 'assists the government of India in thier fight against female foeticide'. Their offline initiatives are directed towards using radio and video as tools to reach rural people, who are unable to access internet. A portable computer called a "computer thela", is taken to the panchayats for dissemination of information which urban areas are reached through cyber cafes. "We forward our complaints to the Prenatal Diagnostic Cell, government of india and watch over the action they take," says Sharma. With an average of 860 complaints recieved in the last five years, Sharma feels that chief district medical officers in each state need to take action against clinics and doctors practising the heinous deed. "We have recently helped in two arrests in Delhi in the Govindpuri and Trilokpuri areas," he says. Sharma's wife even posed as a pregnant mother(with two girl children) and approached a clinic for abortion and within minutes the doctors were ready to 'help' her.
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