{"id":88354,"date":"2020-07-01T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16168"},"modified":"2020-07-01T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:52:42","slug":"india-accounts-for-45-8-million-of-the-worlds-missing-females-says-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-accounts-for-45-8-million-of-the-worlds-missing-females-says-un-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India accounts for 45.8 million of the world\u2019s \u2018missing females\u2019, says UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA) has released the State of World Population Report 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Title of the report: \u2018<\/strong>Against my will: defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality\u2019.<\/li><li><strong>Focus of the report: <\/strong>The report focuses on the problem of child marriage, son preference, gender biased sex selection(GBSS) and female genital mutilation(FGM).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Harmful practices<\/strong>: The report identifies 19 harmful practices against women out of which 3 are most widespread and persistent: Female genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage and son preference.<\/li><li><strong>Missing Females: <\/strong>India accounts for 45.8 million of the world\u2019s 142.6 million missing females over the past 50 years due to gender based sex selection and preference for sons.<\/li><li><strong>Child marriage: <\/strong>Globally, one in five girls is married by age 18.<\/li><li><strong>Female Genital Mutilation: <\/strong>In 2020, an estimated 4.1 million girls will be subjected to female genital mutilation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>UNFPA: <\/strong>It is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.It aims to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted,every childbirth is safe and every young person&#8217;s potential is fulfilled.Its headquarters is located at New York, United States.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA) has released the State of World Population Report 2020. Facts: Title of the report: \u2018Against my will: defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality\u2019. Focus of the report: The report focuses on the problem of child marriage, son preference, gender biased sex selection(GBSS) and female genital&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-accounts-for-45-8-million-of-the-worlds-missing-females-says-un-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India accounts for 45.8 million of the world\u2019s \u2018missing females\u2019, says UN report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[6054,6055],"class_list":["post-88354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-state-of-the-world-population-report","tag-unfpa","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704872744},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}