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Pink Foundation hosts a sufiana night

to focus on female infanticide

Our Bureau

New York

he Pink Foundation along
with IndusTV hosted a Su-
Tfiana Night on February 6,
2021, to highlight the issues of
female gendercide.

the show was full of
mesmerizing music by

various artists such as
Bhavin shastri, Biba

singh, sarika Kansara,

rahul sharma, and
shikha Prashar.

India is home to one of the
highest rates of female infanti-
cide incidents in the world. In
a recent global study on female
infanticide , it has been deter-
mined that at least 50 million
girls have gone “missing” due to
sex-selective abortions. Thou-
sands of baby girls are aban-
doned each year, with very
few that are able to be rescued,
which is caused by an extension
of sex selection practices.
For the last few years, the
members of The Pink Founda-
tion have been working tireless-
ly to advocate against the ongo-
ing female gendercide practices
like infanticide, feticide, baby
killings to the world. They have
been raising global awareness
concerning the loss of female
lives in India, pursuing justice
for the lives lost, assisting in the
rescue of and care for baby girls, against all odds and flourishing of and care for abandoned/or-
and empowering women. in life. phaned girls.
Pink Foundation has also The Pink Foundation is a Our mission is to end female
secured a home for abandoned US-based non-profit that seeks gendercide. We raise global
girls, where girls are sheltered, to end female gendercide. We awareness about female gen-
fed, educated, and nurtured to do this through raising global dercide, pursue justice for lives
strive in their live. Doing the awareness concerning the loss lost, we also partner with Indi-
show some of the stories these of female lives, pursuing jus- an organizations to rescue and
girls were shared. It was a proud tice for the lives lost, and saving care for vulnerable girls, and we
moment to see that these are girls—through assisting Indi- empower women,” said a state-
some amazing girls are fighting an organizations in the rescue ment from the organization.

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