The doc in 2 minutes: The country that didn't like women -

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To be born.

And die immediately, murdered because of the wrong kind.

To be a girl in India, and particularly in certain regions like the state of Rajasthan, in the north-west of the country, is tantamount to a death sentence.

Families do not hesitate to resort to infanticide when the expected baby is female.

“We are very attached to male domination.

If a girl studies, she will no longer listen to her father and mother, she will want to go out, ”explains one of the fathers met by journalists during their report in Jaisalmer, the“ golden city ”in the Thar desert.

Who adds: "If we do not keep our daughters, it is because they cost a lot of money, especially for marriage".

So when a second daughter is born, a third, the family sometimes decides to kill the child, in the name of expenses that they cannot afford.

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  • India

  • Violence against women

  • Infanticide

  • Society

  • Documentary