Infants Found
This field below reveals the total number of infants (dead & alive) found in that state in a specific year.
Sikkim is a northeastern state of India. It borders China in its north and east, Bhutan in its east, Nepal in its west and the Indian state of West Bengal in its south. Sikkim is also located close to the Siliguri Corridor near Bangladesh. Sikkim is the least populous and second smallest among the Indian states. A part of the Eastern Himalaya, Sikkim is notable for its biodiversity, including alpine and subtropical climates, as well as being a host to Kanchenjunga, the highest peak in India.
Team PaaloNaa has not yet recovered any information on cases of infanticide from the state of Sikkim. According to a recent report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) up to 50 million girls and women are missing in India’s population as a result of systematic sex discrimination and sex selective cases of infanticide. India witnesses one of the highest female infanticide incidents in the world.
This field below reveals the total number of infants (dead & alive) found in that state in a specific year.
Asian Centre for Human Rights has revealed that preference of son over daughter is a major reason for female infanticide.
Cases of abandonment and exposure may lead to death of an infant as well. Majority of infants lay dead due to it.
Parental infanticide researchers have found that mothers are far more likely than fathers to be the perpetrator for infanticide.
Infanticide is illegal in India. Since infanticide, especially neonaticide, is often a response to an unwanted birth, preventing unwanted pregnancies through improved sex education and increased contraceptive access are advocated as ways of preventing infanticide. Increased use of contraceptives and access to safe legal abortions have greatly reduced neonaticide in many developed nations. Screening for psychiatric disorders or risk factors, and providing treatment or assistance to those at risk may help prevent infanticide.
In some countries baby hatches or safe surrender sites, safe places for a mother to anonymously leave an infant, are offered, in part to reduce the rate of infanticide. In other places, like the United States, safe-haven laws allow mothers to anonymously give infants to designated officials; they are frequently located at hospitals and police and fire stations. Typically such babies are put up for adoption, or cared for in orphanages.