Drop in Female Births Prompts Alarm in India
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NEW DELHI, Dec. 18 -- Lawmakers and women's rights activists expressed alarm Monday over new evidence indicating that about 7,000 fewer girls than expected are born each day in India, where women routinely suffer discrimination and parents often abort female fetuses.
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The birth rate among adolescent and  young teen girls in the United States fell sharply in the  1990s, hitting a 58-year-low in 2002, the Centers for Disease  Control and Prevention reported on Monday.
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The birth rate among adolescent and young teen girls in the United States fell sharply in the 1990s, hitting a 58-year-low in 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday.
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Two UN agencies warn that a decline in breastfeeding is lowering babies' survival rate in the Asia-Pacific region.
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SONANKUPPAM, India -- Huddled in hushed silence, an anxious crowd stood staring at the approaching motorboat. As six bloated corpses were pulled out and laid on the ground, the crisp morning air was shattered by the shrill wails of women who began to examine the bodies, in search of a missing family member.
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The World Health Organization is campaigning to reduce the numbers of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth. Here we introduce six women around the world who are pregnant.
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The explosive growth of male populations in China and India could threaten social order in those countries as well as international security, according to a book by two academic researchers.
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Many advanced countries face collapsing populations. Making it easier for women to work may be the best way to increase birthrates.
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About 8,000 women lack permanent shelter. Need is likely to rise as more women return from war.
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More than 100 children have died of encephalitis in the past month in India's most populous state, taking the toll this year to 372 as health officials said they hope colder weather may stem the tide.
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The Continent's plummeting fertility rate is a time bomb, threatening economic growth and social welfare. But what can governments do about it? How states are trying to get people to have more kids
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West Bengal state in India is to begin a birth control programme for elephants because it lacks funds for their upkeep.
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India plans to create a registry of all pregnancies to help curb widespread female foeticide and reduce its high infant mortality rate, although activists say the scheme will be hard to implement.
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Science & environment: Number of Indian wild tigers has dwindled to about 1,400, less than half the previous estimate
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It was billed as a proud and historic day for Indian women, as lawmakers prepare to vote on Thursday for the country's first ever female president. But it has turned instead into a major embarrassment for the government.
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High stress and low status have soured many grads on the telephone work. Now India, the outsourcing capital, finds itself having to outsource
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PATTRAN, India  - Manual labourer Gulzar Singh is   haunted by the day he exhumed baby foetuses from a pit outside   an abortion clinic in one of the grisliest chapters in India's   fight against female feticide.