Video: 6 forms of Femicide in India from the Symposium on Femicide in Vienna

Dear Leslie,

Thank you for your support. The resolution covers various other issues impacting on women elsewhere, like FGM. Essentially any practices that directly or indirectly causes the death of a girl or woman only because of their gender. The reason I mention the U.N. Genocide Act in this presentation, is because that is something else that we are pushing for, not just for India but for women globally. Dr. Diana Russell who first politically redefined 'Femicide' to recognize it as all forms of killings of females that are gender-based hate-crimes, agrees that the scale of violence on women in India is 'genocidal' and she has supported me in my argument that 'gender' needs to be included under the 1948 U.N. Act on Genocide. That act covers, race, religion, and other factors. But 'gender' is absent! And that's because when men are killed, they are killed almost always because of their race, religion, etc. but not because of their gender. Only women -- whether in war time or in peace time, or in their homes, are killed because they are female! It is very important because, the Genocide Act is the biggest human rights Act, and it is important to bring the violence on women into the international human rights preview.