through pre-birth tests. Newborn baby girls are sometimes thrown away in garbage dumps, and the birth of a girl in some communities is a source of mourning and reason enough for cruel harassment of the mother by her in-laws and the husband. Girls are often given less food to eat as compared to their male siblings and education for girls gets the lowest priority as they are expected to do the household chores at a very young age.
             Sexual violence against women is still a norm in several societies. It assumes horrendous proportions during armed conflicts when women of opposing factions are systematically raped, subjected to torture, and murdered. In recent memory, armed conflicts in Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia, Congo, and Sierra Leone, resulted in brutal rapes, sexual assaults, sexual slavery, and mutilation of women by male combatants ("Women and Armed Confli
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