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New Delhi, INDIA: Indian mother Sangeeta Sidhu holds her eight month old daughter Nandani, as her husband (R) looks on in their home in the village of Jalahmajra in Nawanshahr District of Punjab in this picture taken, 13 June 2006. In northern Punjab state a large number of girls are either killed before birth, or are considered a cursed by their parents, whose traditional preference for sons remains unshakeable. With only 798 girls for every thousand boys under the age of six, Punjab has the lowest sex ratio in the country, where the figure is 927. The average worldwide is 1,050 female babies. A study by British medical journal Lancet said this year that India may have lost 10 million unborn girls in the past 20 years due to the practice. AFP PHOTO/Manpreet ROMANA (Photo credit should read MANPREET ROMANA/AFP via Getty Images)
New Delhi, INDIA: Indian mother Sangeeta Sidhu holds her eight month old daughter Nandani, as her husband (R) looks on in their home in the village of Jalahmajra in Nawanshahr District of Punjab in this picture taken, 13 June 2006. In northern Punjab state a large number of girls are either killed before birth, or are considered a cursed by their parents, whose traditional preference for sons remains unshakeable. With only 798 girls for every thousand boys under the age of six, Punjab has the lowest sex ratio in the country, where the figure is 927. The average worldwide is 1,050 female babies. A study by British medical journal Lancet said this year that India may have lost 10 million unborn girls in the past 20 years due to the practice. AFP PHOTO/Manpreet ROMANA (Photo credit should read MANPREET ROMANA/AFP via Getty Images)
Indian mother Sangeeta Sidhu holds her e
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