100 million women ‘missing’ worldwide trapped in sex slavery, killed by abortions, domestic violence

Christians attend a Good Friday prayer at the Saint Anthony Church in Lahore, Pakistan, April 3, 2015. | (Photo: Reuters/Mohsin Raza)

As many as 100 million women and girls are estimated to be “missing and unaccounted for” — mostly in Asia and Africa — as the quantitative impact of sex-selective abortions, sex slavery and horrific abuses against women is shown in available data, a new report claims.

Christian humanitarian agency Gospel for Asia released the report “One Hundred Million Missing Women” this week to provide an overview of the population crisis arising worldwide.

The new report cites experts who have used data available dating back to the 1980s to determine that between 90 to 100 million women and girls who should be alive today “simply do not exist.”

According to GFA, census studies on gender ratios in Asia show that there are 106 males to every 100 females. GFA founder K.P. Yohannan contends that while such a discrepancy might not seem like much, it actually speaks to the inequality and neglect that has led to the “excessive mortality of women.”

“As we in America celebrate Mother’s Day, the devaluation and horrendous treatment and abuse of women and girls is a global crisis,” Yohannan said in a statement. “In the poorest regions of the world, and especially in Asia, women’s lives are threatened from the womb to widowhood — and millions of these precious girls will not survive to become mothers.”

Author Karen Mains, who wrote the GFA report, said the devaluation of women and societal discrimination frequently faced by women is creating the global crisis.”

“The irony of the missing-women demographics — enabled by entrenched cultural attitudes and systemic discrimination against the female sex — is that many places in the world with a skewed sex ratio are now experiencing such high female shortages that there are no longer enough women to mate in marriage with the existing male population,” she wrote.

There are a number of different factors that play into the “wild imbalance” in sex ratio for certain countries.

According to Mains, there is a general consensus that the factors that are at play include female infanticide, sex-selective abortions, domestic violence, inadequate health care, lack of pregnancy and childbirth training as well as the “booming sex-slave industry.”

Mains estimates that about 34 million women and girls are caught in the sex trafficking trade globally, including 16 million in India.

“Prostitution is legal in some parts of South Asia so the chances of victimization are drastically increased,” Yohannan said in his statement.

“Many of the poorest families are manipulated into selling their daughters to opportunists who promise a better life for them. But many of these girls — some as young as 10 — are never heard from or seen again. In this century, more women and girls are enslaved in brothels each year than were shipped to slave plantations at the height of the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.”

Mains also highlighted the struggles with childbirth, stressing that 99 percent of women who die in childbirth live in impoverished nations.

“The highest maternal mortality risk in the world is in the African country of Niger. There the lifetime risk of death is 1 in 7,” Mains wrote, adding that ratio is 1 in 4,800 in the United States.

Other factors leading to the disproportionate sex ratio include failed abortions and parents under-feeding girls.

The estimate of 100 million women missing is not a new one. The estimate appears to first have been made in 1990 by Harvard University professor Amartya Sen.

“It is often said that women make up a majority of the world’s population. They do not,” Sen wrote in the 1990 article “More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing” published by the New York Review of Books.

“This mistaken belief is based on generalizing from the contemporary situation in Europe and North America, where the ratio of women to men is typically around 1.05 or 1.06, or higher. In South Asia, West Asia, and China, the ratio of women to men can be as low as 0.94, or even lower, and it varies widely elsewhere in Asia, in Africa, and in Latin America.”

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that “126 million women are believed to be ‘missing’ around the world” as a result of “son preference and gender-biased sex selection, a form of discrimination.”

“Since the 1990s, some areas have seen up to 25 percent more male births than female births,” the UNFPA explains online. “The rise in sex selection is alarming as it reflects the persistent low status of women and girls. The resulting gender imbalance also has a damaging effect on societies. Instances of increased sexual violence and trafficking have already been linked to the phenomenon.”

Sounds like over hyped MSM talk to me trying to get Americans to send $$$$.
I always go by:
“Have I ever seen anything like this in all my world travels?”

I have a very trusted friend who tells me Lebanon is where the rich Saudi keep their mistresses.
The buying by rich Arabs shown in “Taken” is real.
Probably real in parts of Eastern Europe.
Parts of Africa sells their pre-teen girls.

Other than that and Thailand, I’d say its over hyped.
The common node (other than Thailand) is Muslims.

Many societies which, up into the late 20th century, didn't keep very exact records, now have mandated reporting for public health purposes: things like births, neonatal deaths, maternal deaths, disease, injury, fertility rate, birth rate, and overall death rate. Most countries have digitized data collection for the purpose of planning disease control, insurance acutarial data, and long-term projections in education, urban planning, and economics (not least taxation.)

A lot of the methodolgy for collecting and processing this kind of stat comes as a requirment or precondition for getting foreign aid, credit, and investment.

So the figures are more accurate now than they were even 30 years ago.

When there's a disparity running into the 10's or 100's of millions between males and females, it's --- unsurprisingly --- noticeable.

And the consequences for society are extremely disruptive.

The number of native American Indian women missing or murdered is much higher than the rest of the USA percentage-wise. Culture no doubt plays a part. I recall some movie about women in Mexico(?) or some other country in S. America going missing. It was based on true events - it was unbelievable the numbers of girls and women gone.

It does NOT presuppose that there should be equal numbers of males and females.

Figures going back centuries in societies that kept records --- whether through baptismal records documenting infants, or citywide effort like the London Bills of Mortality going back to the 1600's --- show that male births tend to outpace female births by a bit (~106:100). This means that at birth on average, there are 106 males for every 100 females.

That tends to even out by adolescence, since males have a higher death rate at every age. Male babies, boys and men are at a higher risk of dying than women not only due to sex differentials in genetic and congenital abnormalities and various diseases, but also due to higher risk from external causes (accidents, injuries, violence, etc.)

The huge preponderance of male deaths from war has to be factored in (annihilating males at their most fertile age, 18-35), crop failure, floods and famine, mass die-offs due to bacterial or viral epidemics, etc.

Bottom line, despite higher male death rates from almost every reportable cause, there are places where males still outnumber females, and it's getting more lopsided. A Indian government survey conducted recently in 132 villages in Uttarkashi revealed that none of the 216 children born in those villages over three months were girls. That's 216 male births, zero female births.

Pretty obvious.

Sources: StatisticsTimes

I found 8,000 more (per year) missing women in India.

India burning brides and ancient practice is on the rise
https://www.smh.com.au/world/india-burning-brides-and-ancient-practice-is-on-the-rise-20150115-12r4j1.html

Snip:

She survived three days, enough time to describe to police how she came to be doused in kerosene by her mother-in-law and set alight by her husband.

Bride-burning, as this type of crime is most commonly referred to, accounts for the death of at least one woman every hour in India, more than 8000 women a year.

“We also call it dowry death,” says Donna Fernandes, the founder of Vimochana, a women’s rights organisation established in Bangalore in 1975 with the aim of preventing violent against women.

“The husband’s family believes they have not received enough money for their son at the time of the wedding, perhaps because they are of a higher caste or some such reason, and that’s when the harassment starts.”

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