Descubre la impactante realidad que enfrentan las mujeres en Asia en el documental "La Maldición de Ser Niña". A través de testimonios conmovedores y datos alarmantes, exploramos la práctica del infanticidio y feticidio en países como India, Pakistán y China, donde cientos de miles de niñas desaparecen nada más nacer. A pesar de los esfuerzos médicos y legales, esta cruel realidad persiste, revelando una profunda desigualdad de género y violencia que sigue afectando a generaciones. Únete a nosotros para arrojar luz sobre este tema urgente y comprender la maldición que se cierne sobre las mujeres en el continente asiático. Comparte y educa a otros sobre esta problemática vital.
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00:00Here you have your baby.
00:26It's a girl.
00:27She's not happy to have a baby.
00:33Why?
00:34Because she wanted to have a baby.
00:37It is natural to want your child to be a man.
00:42In other countries the same thing happens, right?
00:50Being born a woman in India is a curse.
00:55Although things are as they are, it is rather a miracle.
01:00With the emergence of ecography and selective abortion,
01:05fewer girls are born in India, Pakistan and China.
01:10In Asia, 100 million women are missing, disappeared, sacrificed.
01:19India is the second largest country in the world.
01:24It is the second largest country in the world.
01:29India is the second largest country in the world.
01:34India is the second largest country in the world.
01:39India is the second largest country in the world.
01:44India is the second largest country in the world.
01:49India is the second largest country in the world.
01:54India has been sacrificing newborns for centuries.
01:59In Tamil Nadu, a state located in the far southeast of the country,
02:04they continue to sacrifice them.
02:09This sacrifice is carried out in the intimacy of the family,
02:14in the name of tradition, beliefs and poverty.
02:23I didn't want to kill my daughter.
02:28But my neighbors came and told me,
02:32you have three daughters, you have to kill one.
02:36The girls are useless.
02:39My family told me the same thing.
02:42But I couldn't kill her.
02:45She was very beautiful, too much.
02:48She was born to die.
02:50She was born at home at four in the morning.
02:53The neighbors told me, let's kill her with tobacco juice.
02:57They prepared a mixture with crushed tobacco leaves.
03:01I didn't want to do it.
03:04I was very sad.
03:06I lay down next to her.
03:08I couldn't look at her.
03:10But she didn't die right away.
03:12She died in the afternoon.
03:14When I saw her, I couldn't stand it.
03:16I told my mother, we have to save her.
03:18Let's give her sugar juice to wake her up.
03:21My mother gave it to her with her hand, but it was too late.
03:24My little one was dead.
03:26My mother buried her in the garden behind the house.
03:29I couldn't.
03:32I planted some flowers and a tree in that place.
03:35Now my daughter would be ten years old.
03:38I can't forget her.
03:40It's impossible.
03:42I can't forget her.
03:49Every year, 3,000 newborns die in Tamil Nadu.
03:53The law punishes infanticide with life imprisonment.
03:57But local authorities haven't been able to stop this secret practice.
04:02There's a belief that if a girl is killed,
04:05the next child will be a boy.
04:09To limit the number of infanticides,
04:11prevention is more effective than repression.
04:15Sudha works for the NGO Land of Men.
04:18For five years now, she's visited hundreds of villages
04:21in search of families likely to commit infanticide.
04:28It's easier for parents to kill their daughters
04:31during the first days of life.
04:33We try to get the mother to start feeding her baby
04:36to create a mother-daughter bond.
04:39This will make it harder for her to take action.
04:42The first ten days are critical.
04:44We have to be there day and night.
04:46The family we're going to visit is very complicated.
04:49They had a girl, then they wanted a boy,
04:51but they had two twins.
04:53They wanted to kill them.
04:57We spent a month and a half talking to the parents
05:00to convince them to keep the two.
05:09What do you need?
05:11Do you have enough food?
05:13No, I need milk, powder and medicine.
05:17We'll bring it to you. Anything else?
05:20No, that's enough.
05:23At the beginning, she fed only one child.
05:26She gave the mother to feed both the child.
05:29We asked her to feed both to create a bond
05:32and not to let her die.
05:36But now she's giving more to this than the other one.
05:41So we also have to convince her to feed both equally.
05:45We're going to have to come every day,
05:47sit next to her and get her to feed the weakest.
05:51For now, we hope the two babies are still alive.
05:54That's the most important thing.
05:56We're going to make sure they don't get hurt.
05:59We're going to do everything we can to keep them alive.
06:14In 10 years, the number of child murders in this district
06:17has reduced by half.
06:19At the Tierra de Hombres association,
06:21the mothers have found a place
06:23where the community's pressure escapes.
06:27The organization provides them with food,
06:29health care and education
06:31for the daughters who have ended up accepting.
06:40Chesian, the director of the center,
06:42started the fight 10 years ago.
06:44He has saved 1,300 girls who were destined to die.
06:49Look, these are the babies we've saved.
06:59This is a baby that is dead.
07:02You can see it in the picture.
07:04Blood came out of the nose.
07:06You can see the baby blood.
07:08They killed the baby.
07:13These are all the babies we've found.
07:16You were there?
07:18When I took her in my arms,
07:20blood started coming out of her nose.
07:23We received a phone call
07:25telling us that a family was going to kill a girl.
07:29We only knew the name of the town.
07:32We didn't have the address.
07:34We arrived too late.
07:36She had already been poisoned.
07:39I took her in my arms and she started bleeding.
07:43Her body was still hot, very hot.
07:46It was just hardly not even five minutes
07:49before we reached the baby died.
08:04If you don't do it,
08:06you become a different fellow, right?
08:10You are a stranger.
08:13When a mother refuses to do it,
08:15she is excluded from the community.
08:18Her neighbors look at her and say,
08:20you haven't killed your daughter,
08:22and you already have four daughters.
08:24The elders of the town and the community
08:26exert a great psychological pressure.
08:29The whole town gathers and says to the mother,
08:32you have four daughters.
08:34How are you going to educate and marry them?
08:37Think of your future.
08:42The mother is not even aware
08:44of committing a crime,
08:46because here, in most towns,
08:48it is considered that you can have children as you want.
08:52All the pressure falls on the mother
08:54because there is a popular belief
08:56that it is not a sin for a mother
08:58to kill her own daughter.
09:04Emma had five daughters.
09:06The first two were sacrificed.
09:08Land of Men saved the other three.
09:11Emma is a murderous mother,
09:13but she is also a victim.
09:15Her family and the elders of the town
09:17did not let her choose.
09:21I killed my daughter,
09:23because the town astrologer told us
09:25that if I didn't do it,
09:27my husband would have problems.
09:29If I let my daughter live,
09:31my husband would die.
09:33I killed her with my own hands.
09:35I cried when I gave her the poison.
10:03I am sad to have killed her.
10:05It is very hard.
10:07Why did I kill her?
10:09The more they ask me,
10:11the more aware I am
10:13of how bad it was.
10:15Do you think about it often?
10:17I think about it all the time.
10:19It hurts me.
10:21It makes me suffer.
10:23I can't be at peace.
10:25I can't forget it.
10:27Do you think about it often?
10:29I think about it all the time.
10:31It hurts me.
10:39It makes me suffer.
10:41I can't be at peace.
10:43I can't forget it.
10:57In India,
10:59men have always had a preference.
11:01In Hindu rites,
11:03the son is the only one
11:05who can light
11:07his parents' funeral fire.
11:09Only he can guarantee
11:11his reincarnation,
11:13allowing them to die in peace.
11:15The son is also the heir.
11:17He allows the lands
11:19and goods to remain in the family.
11:21The daughter is considered
11:23as a useless burden.
11:25She needs a dote,
11:27a ruinous custom,
11:29which since 1960
11:31prohibits the law,
11:33although it is still practiced.
11:37In India,
11:39having a son
11:41makes you more powerful.
11:43A son gives you more power.
11:45It allows you to automatically
11:47access a higher status
11:49in Indian society.
11:51On the other hand,
11:53a daughter is useless.
11:55You raise a daughter
11:57knowing that one day
11:59she will go to another family.
12:01Daughters always end up
12:03belonging to another family.
12:07A third of the population
12:09of Pakistan,
12:11of more than 150 million inhabitants,
12:13lives under the threshold of poverty.
12:15Here, mothers don't kill their children
12:17for traditions or beliefs,
12:19but for growing poverty,
12:21just like in other Asian countries.
12:23In just a few years,
12:25the population of Karachi
12:27has reached 13 million inhabitants.
12:29The poorest live in piñados
12:31in slums.
12:33The number of families
12:35who decide to abandon
12:37their newborn daughters
12:39increases constantly.
12:41Faisal dedicates his life
12:43to saving the newborns,
12:45an action that has become
12:47a priority.
12:49They say it is not alive,
12:51but we are going to go check
12:53and see if it is alive or not.
12:59Do you find abandoned babies
13:01very often?
13:03Yes, almost every day.
13:07Mostly they are girls,
13:09unwanted girls.
13:19Give it to me.
13:21That's it.
13:23Slowly.
13:41Where was it?
13:43Where did you find it?
13:45We found the baby from here.
13:47We found it there
13:49and we called them right away.
13:55Poverty causes these situations.
13:57Very poor families
13:59don't want to have daughters.
14:01They prefer children
14:03because they can work
14:05from a very young age
14:07and bring money home
14:09for the family.
14:11It can't be.
14:13You can't throw a baby
14:15against our traditions,
14:17against our religion.
14:19This happens because of ignorance.
14:21In Pakistan,
14:23most people are illiterate.
14:25They don't understand
14:27that you can't do something like this.
14:29Hopefully, with time,
14:31we can change our society,
14:33if God wills.
14:39Thank you for your help.
14:41Poverty is obvious.
14:43For Pakistani society,
14:45eliminating girls like this
14:47is a crime that goes against
14:49all the rules of Islam.
14:51In 20 years,
14:53the Edith Foundation has found
14:55more than 30,000 abandoned
14:57baby bodies in the streets.
15:07I brought the body of another girl.
15:13Can you wash her?
15:35One day,
15:37I had an idea
15:39to stop the killing of these girls.
15:41I thought we could
15:43publish a photo
15:45with all the bodies
15:47we found in a month.
15:49But that month,
15:51we found more than 20.
15:55The photo I took
15:57was so horrible
15:59that I didn't dare publish it.
16:03I wanted to do it
16:05to alert people,
16:07to tell them
16:09not to kill babies.
16:35In the suburbs of Karachi,
16:37we found the cemetery
16:39of the poor, of the marginalized.
16:41According to the Muslim rite,
16:43the girls buried there
16:45are found by the Edith Association.
17:03A prayer is prayed for the missing
17:05so that the little girl
17:07leaves a trace of her existence
17:09to return humanity to her in death.
17:29In front of the premises
17:31of the Edith Association,
17:33it is a way to encourage mothers
17:35to leave their daughters there
17:37instead of throwing them
17:39into the streets of the city.
17:41Next to it, there is a maternity
17:43for the most disadvantaged.
17:45Birth is free.
17:47Families wait in the corridors,
17:49in the nurseries,
17:51for good or bad news.
17:53It's a girl.
17:55Look, it's a girl.
17:57Let's show her to the family.
18:09She is there, behind.
18:15It's a girl.
18:17Bad luck.
18:19Nothing happens.
18:21What are we going to do?
18:23We wanted a boy.
18:25We wanted so much.
18:27But God gave us a girl.
18:29God wanted it that way.
18:35Do you have a girl?
18:37No, it's a boy.
18:39Good luck.
18:41The family is not happy,
18:43but now that the girl is here,
18:45they have to accept her.
18:47She is not an object
18:49that can be undone.
18:55She is a little girl.
19:07An hour after birth,
19:09the family returns home
19:11in one of the many streets
19:13of Chabolas de Carache.
19:15The newborn is the tenth child
19:17of a family with seven children
19:19and only two daughters.
19:25Look at me, I have a son.
19:27Look at me, he's handsome, isn't he?
19:35When a boy is born,
19:37you have to have a big party,
19:39not like when a girl is born.
19:43Yes, we kill a lamb,
19:45a cow and we make a feast.
19:55We dress up for the party,
19:57we sing and we dance.
20:07For a son, I am willing
20:09to owe my whole life
20:11to celebrate his birth.
20:13All my life.
20:15Do you hear me?
20:17I agree with my husband.
20:19It's normal.
20:21Girls don't bring money to the family.
20:23They don't go to school,
20:25they don't know how to read or write.
20:27They never go out.
20:29They only serve to take care
20:31of the domestic chores,
20:33of their siblings and of cooking.
20:35All women want to have children
20:37because when a woman
20:39only has daughters,
20:41in the end her husband abandons her.
20:43He abandons her?
20:45Yes, and he marries another
20:47to have a son.
20:49That's it.
20:52And what if the second one
20:54doesn't work either?
20:56You get married a third time.
20:58Until it works.
21:02It's very simple.
21:04If a woman only brings
21:06girls to the world,
21:08she has no value.
21:10A woman who can't have a boy
21:12is useless.
21:14It's her fault,
21:16so you send her to her parents'.
21:22It's this way.
21:24Where have you found this girl?
21:26Have you checked
21:28that she hasn't been lost
21:30to her parents?
21:32I'm sure she's been abandoned.
21:34In Pakistan.
21:36In Pakistan?
21:38Yes.
21:40In Pakistan?
21:42Yes.
21:44In Pakistan?
21:46Yes.
21:48In Pakistan?
21:50In Pakistan,
21:52as in India and China,
21:54the mortality rate
21:56of five-year-old girls
21:58triples that of children.
22:00In most cases,
22:02they are abandoned,
22:04malnourished, mistreated,
22:06and die without a trace.
22:08What's your name, son?
22:10What's your name, son?
22:12What's your name, son?
22:14She was found in the bushes.
22:16It's a girl.
22:18She was found in the bushes,
22:20in the garden.
22:30The girl is just over a year old.
22:32She hasn't eaten for several days.
22:34Faisal takes her
22:36to one of the shelters
22:38for abandoned girls.
22:49Look, they've just found her
22:51in a park in the city.
22:53Put her there.
22:55Like this.
22:59Bilqis Saeedi is Faisal's mother
23:01and founded this shelter
23:03more than 30 years ago.
23:05Give this girl something to eat.
23:07Bilqis has saved thousands of girls
23:09and has managed to adopt them
23:11into rich Pakistani families.
23:14I've adopted 16,200 babies.
23:16Ninety percent of the babies
23:18are girls, like her.
23:22You'll see how in a month
23:24they won't recognize her.
23:28This girl from behind
23:30was like her when we found her.
23:32And look how she is today,
23:34beautiful as a flower.
23:39The same thing happens in Bangladesh,
23:41India, and the rest of Pakistan.
23:43Injustice against women
23:45is committed all over Asia.
23:47In all parts, they abandon
23:49newborn girls.
23:51In Asia, there are women
23:53who can't take it anymore
23:55and commit suicide.
23:57The Pakistani society is masculine.
23:59We can't change society.
24:01Women have no rights.
24:03They'll never have them.
24:05They have to be patient.
24:07The only alternative we have
24:09is commitment.
24:15You are my daughter.
24:17I am your mother.
24:19I will always watch over you.
24:21May Allah protect you.
24:33India, a country with
24:35more than a billion inhabitants,
24:37has a deficit of 40%
24:39compared to the rest of the world.
24:41A country with more than
24:43a billion inhabitants
24:45has a deficit of 40 million women.
24:47In Punjab, there are
24:49less than 730 girls
24:51per 1,000 children.
24:53In the northern regions,
24:55infanticide has been replaced
24:57by what the Indians call feticide.
24:59The emergence of new technologies
25:01and ecography 20 years ago
25:03has led to the mass elimination
25:05of female fetuses.
25:07The revelation of the sex of the fetus
25:09has been banned for 10 years,
25:11but no one controls what happens
25:13in the private ecography centers
25:15that appear in every corner of the street.
25:17Medical practice has deviated
25:19from the name of the traditions.
25:21A long time ago,
25:23there was an advertisement
25:25that became very popular.
25:27It was an advertising campaign
25:29for private clinics.
25:31It said,
25:33pay 500 rupees today
25:35and save 50,000 rupees tomorrow.
25:39In other words,
25:41pay 500 rupees
25:43to have an ecography
25:45and know the sex of the fetus.
25:47And if it is a girl,
25:49abort.
25:51This will save
25:53having to pay the dowry
25:55later.
26:03The determination of the sex of the fetus
26:05has become so popular
26:07that ecography centers
26:09and mobile clinics
26:11have also proliferated in the countryside.
26:13As a result of these 20 years
26:15of selective abortions,
26:17there are fewer and fewer girls
26:19in the villages of northern India.
26:25Sadhu Ankaur
26:27has been a matron for 30 years
26:29in a village in Punjab.
26:31Of the 10 births he has made this month,
26:339 have been of girls.
26:35Sadhu Ankaur has been a matron for 30 years
26:37in a village in Punjab.
26:39Of the 10 births he has made this month,
26:419 have been of girls.
26:43Sadhu Ankaur has been a matron for 30 years
26:45in a village in Punjab.
26:47Sadhu Ankaur has been a matron
26:49for 30 years
26:51in a village in Punjab.
26:53Sadhu Ankaur has been a matron
26:55for 30 years
26:57in a village in Punjab.
26:59Sadhu Ankaur has been a matron
27:01for 30 years
27:03in a village in Punjab.
27:05Why did you abort?
27:09It is very difficult to marry daughters.
27:11It is very expensive because
27:13you have to pay a dowry.
27:15I am very happy with my daughters,
27:17but I hope to have a son.
27:19I need to have a son,
27:21otherwise I don't know what will become of me.
27:25Don't worry,
27:27in the end you will have a son,
27:29I am convinced.
27:33Calm down, don't cry.
27:47And you?
27:49Did you want to abort?
27:53My political family pressured me a lot,
27:55although I also wanted a child.
27:59My husband started hitting me
28:01because we didn't have children.
28:03He started drinking more and more.
28:07Now he hits me,
28:09kicks me, punches me.
28:11He also hits my daughters.
28:13He doesn't let us sleep,
28:15he hits us non-stop.
28:17He keeps hitting us.
28:19I can't stop thinking about the girls
28:21I haven't had.
28:23I hear them screaming in my belly,
28:25Mom, please don't kill me,
28:27I won't eat much,
28:29but you killed them
28:31because you didn't have
28:33anything to feed them.
28:37My unborn daughters tell me,
28:39what kind of mother is this
28:41who has not let us live?
28:45And all because of your husband.
28:51The Indian woman suffers,
28:53tortured by her conscience.
28:55She is forced to do it.
28:59That is the sad fate we are running.
29:07The Indian woman can only
29:09shut up or die.
29:25The problem of female fetishism
29:27in India is enormous.
29:51It is a problem within control.
29:53It has become a totally uncontrollable phenomenon.
29:56According to the Indian Medical Institute,
29:59in India there are 6 million abortions per year,
30:02and 90% of abortions are female fetuses.
30:08Despite the law, Indian women continue to find doctors
30:11who help them get rid of their future daughters.
30:14Selective abortion has become a clandestine and lucrative market,
30:17impossible to control.
30:19There are private clinics in all cities.
30:22In India, there are about 22,000 clinics
30:24where abortions are performed.
30:27Very few doctors report cases of fetishism.
30:30Dr. Vidhi has launched a crusade against his colleagues.
30:33His critics are annoying.
30:34He has received several death threats.
30:37Every day I find on the floor of my clinic
30:40fetuses of 5, 6 and even 7 months.
30:45And when I ask why, the answer is always the same.
30:49They tell me, because it was a girl.
30:51That's why I struggle.
30:54Feticide is a crime.
30:56And it is an organized crime.
30:58Organized by a very powerful group of doctors,
31:01very prepared, very rich.
31:06These doctors agree with the future parents
31:09and kill their daughters for money.
31:12It is like a contract killing.
31:15The parents want to get rid of their daughter
31:17and the doctors provide an illegal service,
31:19which is not ethical
31:20and goes against the principles of medicine.
31:23Nothing can justify something like that.
31:25And on top of that, those doctors
31:27do not suffer any kind of persecution.
31:29In the last 20 years,
31:31millions of selective abortions have been practiced in India
31:33and not a single doctor has been convicted.
31:48It is not easy for us.
31:52In this system, everyone has interests.
31:55And this makes our work very difficult.
31:58Recently, an American test has been released
32:01that allows you to know the sex of the child at home,
32:05without having to go to a clinic.
32:11How are we going to fight that?
32:18We cannot control the rooms of the whole world.
32:22If a technique is prohibited,
32:24soon another will appear to replace it.
32:27What we have to do is change the attitude of the people.
32:30No repression, no prison sentence will change this.
32:34Imprisoning doctors will not change anything.
32:37Indian parents will find another way to eliminate their daughters.
32:42The contraceptive methods are very little used in India.
32:46A woman will continue to want to have children and abort
32:49until she gives birth to a boy.
32:56In this consultation in the north of the province of Haryana,
32:59two of every three mothers ask Dr. Singh
33:02about the sex of their child.
33:04But he refuses to reveal it,
33:06ignoring the pressures.
33:09Many women have family pressures to have children.
33:13But a new phenomenon has appeared,
33:16especially among the educated classes,
33:19and it is that the number of women who refuse to have daughters has increased.
33:23The Indian woman does not want her daughter to have the same luck as her.
33:27She does not want her daughter to suffer the same violence as her,
33:31that her mother suffered before her, and much before her grandmother.
33:36This is a new change,
33:38and it is the women with education and money who do not want to have daughters.
33:43The most affected regions are the rich regions of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.
33:49The demographers are surprised.
33:52They thought that only the poor women who lived in the rural areas
33:56wanted to eliminate their daughters,
33:59when in reality it is the opposite.
34:03Modern technology reveals the preference for children.
34:07Mothers-in-law are responsible for it.
34:14Do you want a girl or a boy?
34:20Do you want a boy or a girl?
34:23I do not want a boy.
34:26I do not want a girl.
34:29Do you want a boy or a girl?
34:32I do not care.
34:34Ask the mother-in-law.
34:37Do you want a grandson or a granddaughter?
34:40I want ...
34:43Come on, tell her.
34:46I want a grandson.
34:48So we will be calm about the issue of inheritance.
34:51If the first child is a boy,
34:53we will not spend our lives waiting for others to be.
35:00When the mother-in-law accompanies the daughter-in-law,
35:03it means that the decisions are taken by her.
35:06The husband has not come,
35:08and the daughter-in-law barely answered the questions.
35:11I am very worried.
35:13I think there is a 70% chance
35:15that the mother-in-law will pressure the daughter-in-law
35:18to know the sex of the fetus
35:20and get rid of it in case it is a girl,
35:23since it is the mother-in-law who makes the decisions.
35:27Local initiatives to fight feticide
35:30are multiplied throughout the country.
35:33Ritu Sharma is a sociologist.
35:35She regularly visits the Sangas,
35:37the women's councils of the villages of Punjab.
35:40She wants to convince mothers-in-law,
35:42women who have the recognition of Indian society
35:45because they have had male children,
35:47and they want to impose on their daughters-in-law
35:49that they give a heir to the family.
35:51Out of reach of the male gaze,
35:53Ritu Sharma wants to awaken their consciousness,
35:55and spread the word of the Indian woman
35:57who, by refusing to have girls,
35:59is managing her own disappearance.
36:02We have to talk about the problem.
36:05Speaking, we will find the solution.
36:07Do not be afraid.
36:13If we say what we think and what we do,
36:16we will have problems.
36:19It is not easy to raise girls.
36:21It costs money.
36:23You have to think about your future all the time.
36:26And if you have two daughters,
36:28how are you going to pay the dowry?
36:30It is better to abort.
36:32There are more and more in-laws
36:34who burn their daughters-in-law alive
36:36because their parents cannot pay the dowry.
36:38This means that we spend a lot of money
36:40to raise our daughters,
36:42and when we give them to other families,
36:44they burn them, disfigure them,
36:46and even kill them.
36:48Before we did not have this problem,
36:50now we have it.
36:52If we do not give it to them,
36:54political families kill our daughters.
36:56If this problem disappears,
36:58we will not kill our daughters.
37:00If the dowry disappears,
37:02we will let our daughters be born.
37:05We live in a system dominated by men.
37:08We, women,
37:10have to make society evolve.
37:12We have to resist the pressure
37:14that leads us to kill our daughters.
37:16We have to change the situation
37:18so that our daughters and daughters-in-law
37:20stop being victims of the system.
37:22We have to think
37:24that we are not so weak.
37:26We feel weak, vulnerable,
37:28because for many years
37:30they have made us believe that we were.
37:32But only we can help each other.
37:34We are mothers-in-law.
37:36We have to stop pressuring our daughters-in-law.
37:38We have to behave like mothers.
37:40If we unite in our destiny as women,
37:42we will be stronger.
37:49It will take time to change
37:51the mentality and traditions.
37:56Indian women continue to go to the temple
37:58to pray to have children
38:00and, above all, not to have children.
38:06A dramatic situation for the future of the country.
38:08Indian society,
38:10anchored in its beliefs and traditions,
38:12remains insensitive
38:14to the information campaigns of the Indian government.
38:16If you get tested
38:18and find out
38:20that you are an old woman,
38:22you may not be allowed
38:24to have children.
38:26If you get tested
38:28and find out
38:30that you are an old woman,
38:32you may not be allowed
38:34to have children.
38:44This will not happen to me.
38:48She will be born.
38:52She is mute.
38:54You are not.
38:56If you are not against child abuse and murder,
38:58you have the right to do so.
39:08China, with more than 1,300 million inhabitants,
39:10also faces the problem
39:12of the scarcity of women.
39:14It seems that there are 50 million
39:16missing women.
39:18Just like in India,
39:20fetishism has been progressively replacing infanticide.
39:22Millions of clandestine abortions
39:24are practiced every year,
39:26and not only as a consequence of a patriarchal society
39:28in which the child is the heir
39:30to the assets,
39:32but also the perverse effect of 20 years
39:34of the one-child policy.
39:36It is normal that girls are eliminated.
39:38Chinese authorities
39:40have decided to react
39:42and take action on the matter.
39:44They have changed the slogan of the party,
39:46which is now,
39:48Mimic the girls.
39:50The new state policy
39:52takes us to Fujian, the Chinese province
39:54with the highest birth imbalance,
39:56136 children for every 100 girls.
40:06The authorities put to the test
40:08their new campaign in favor of girls
40:10in this school in the canton of Anxi.
40:20In these two years,
40:22the teachers have had to adapt
40:24their classes under the auspices
40:26of the local government.
40:28Good morning, Professor.
40:44The question of gender equality
40:46has always existed,
40:48both in the West and in Asia,
40:50in our times or in antiquity.
40:52Although the position of women
40:54in our traditional society
40:56is not very important,
40:58some have contributed a lot to society.
41:00For example, abroad,
41:02we have studied the case of ...
41:04Marie Curie.
41:06Marie Curie, who received on two occasions ...
41:08The Nobel Prize.
41:10An exceptional event.
41:12In new China, women have to feel
41:14proud to be it and say loud and clear
41:16that we are equal to men.
41:34The new policy is tested
41:36in a dozen Chinese cantons.
41:38Mr. Li is in charge of putting it into practice
41:40in the canton of Anxi.
41:42Li is a former army officer
41:44and the authorities usually set as an example.
41:48This room is our gallery of exhibitions.
41:50It is a real museum.
41:52It collects all the family planning programs
41:54since the 1960s.
42:00This is the part
42:02reserved for the new program.
42:06We have called it
42:08Mimicking the Girls.
42:10It is about giving more love
42:12and attention to girls.
42:14To give them more opportunities
42:16to succeed in life
42:18and achieve gender equality.
42:22It is our main goal
42:24for the next few years.
42:32And this is the Chinese paradox.
42:34They value girls to avoid their disappearance,
42:36without abandoning the policy of the only child
42:38that has led families to have only men.
42:42We can say that in China
42:44the policy of birth control
42:46is the main cause
42:48of the decline in birth rates.
42:52And the fact that families
42:54have fewer offspring
42:56explains that more children
42:58are born than girls.
43:02If you can only have
43:04one or two children,
43:06it is natural that the desire
43:08to have a boy
43:10is more oppressive.
43:18The government has decided
43:20to pay those who have daughters
43:22in this canton.
43:24Mr. Li proudly shows us
43:26what he calls concrete actions.
43:32Rehousing is the most ambitious measure
43:34of the Mimicking the Girls program.
43:36The state builds or conditions
43:38for poor families
43:40who only have daughters.
43:42Every year, 100 couples
43:44from the canton of Anxi
43:46benefit from this measure.
43:48The state spends 20,000 yuan
43:50per house,
43:52and also gives the land.
43:54Everything is free,
43:56even these footpaths
43:58that the state finances.
44:00In short,
44:02each family has a house
44:04of 80 square meters
44:06and can build the second floor.
44:16This is one of the families
44:18of two daughters
44:20who have benefited from the program.
44:30Before we did not have
44:32our own home.
44:34We lived in my grandmother's house,
44:36in a room of five square meters.
44:38What did you think
44:40when your second daughter was born?
44:44I was very sad, of course.
44:46Having daughters means
44:48not having a workforce
44:50for the tasks of the field.
44:52When the second was born,
44:54I was very worried about the future.
44:56Did you imagine
44:58that you would have a house
45:00just to have two daughters?
45:02No,
45:04I never imagined it.
45:08The truth is
45:10that without economic aid
45:12such as housing
45:14and even retirement benefits,
45:16we will not be able
45:18to solve the problem.
45:20With measures like these,
45:22people are not so worried
45:24about the future,
45:26and they have no reason
45:28to prefer men.
45:30According to the Chinese authorities,
45:32the program Mimad a las Niñas
45:34is a success.
45:36However, it is a limited experiment,
45:38and China has to face
45:40the worrying consequences
45:42of the absence of women.
45:44There are currently
45:46an excess of men,
45:4840 million men.
45:50They call them the naked branches,
45:52who will never find women
45:54because they were not born.
45:56According to the statistics
45:58of the Chinese government,
46:00there are about 20 million men
46:02who will not find women
46:04to found a family.
46:08It may happen
46:10that the men of the city
46:12go to the countryside
46:14in search of women,
46:16and that those of the countryside
46:18go to look for their own
46:20in the mountains.
46:22In short,
46:24there will be large groups
46:26of single men and women
46:28in the most remote regions of China.
46:34This phenomenon poses
46:36a risk of instability
46:38for the country.
46:56These villages are known
46:58as Bekeler's Villages,
47:00villages of single men.
47:02There are hundreds of them
47:04in the region.
47:06They are the alarming consequence
47:08of more than 20 years
47:10of widespread feticide,
47:12which has caused the disappearance
47:14of half of humanity
47:16before they were born.
47:18Today, a generation of men
47:20faces the future without women.
47:26Rotak is a primary school teacher
47:28in the village school.
47:30He has three brothers.
47:32Only the eldest is married.
47:34Only one brother is married,
47:36the others are not.
47:38I am not married.
47:40And you?
47:42No.
47:44I am not married.
47:46I am not married.
47:48I am not married.
47:50I am not married.
47:52I am not married.
47:54But it took a long time
47:56to get married.
48:00Yes, it took five years.
48:02It was not easy.
48:06The problem is that
48:08there are not enough girls.
48:10There are no girls in our village
48:12and the same happens
48:14in the other villages in the region.
48:16There are no girls in 90%
48:18of the villages around.
48:20Feticide is to blame.
48:22Many women want husbands
48:24with money, officials.
48:26They only give their daughters
48:28to rich men and not to the poor
48:30like us.
48:32We have no possibility.
48:34Have you visited many families?
48:36Yes, many.
48:38How many?
48:4022, 25.
48:42And they always give me
48:44the same answer,
48:46that I do not have a job
48:48good enough.
48:50The neighbors look at me
48:52like a weird bug.
48:54They make fun of me.
48:56Are you afraid
48:58of never finding a wife?
49:00No, I am not afraid.
49:02I know I will not find her.
49:04I am resigned.
49:08I am 32 years old.
49:10I am too old.
49:12It's over.
49:14In India, in the countryside,
49:16it is considered that if you are not married
49:18you have no chance to get married.
49:20That's the tradition.
49:2225 years is the maximum age
49:24to find a wife.
49:26Then you have nothing to do.
49:28The older brother of Rohtak
49:30has had an offspring,
49:32a son, of course.
49:40I am a good uncle.
49:42As I have no wife,
49:44this child is like my son.
49:48I am a good uncle.
49:58The few women in the village
50:00are like shadows.
50:02Some have been bought
50:04in other regions.
50:06The violence is increasing.
50:08Alcoholism has become
50:10something common.
50:12It is the disconcert
50:14of a generation of single men.
50:16It is difficult to face this absence.
50:34I have friends with money
50:36who have found women
50:38in other places,
50:40but I can't find any.
50:42People like us get lost.
50:44If I were married,
50:46I would have a goal
50:48and I would not be a criminal.
50:50You get bad habits.
50:52You get depressed.
50:54In the villages,
50:56problems with drugs
50:58and alcoholism increase.
51:02There is a lot of violence
51:04and rapes.
51:06It is very worrying.
51:08You don't know what will happen.
51:10You don't know.
51:14You don't know.
51:28Where will the men come from?
51:30Where will the children come from
51:32if there are no women?
51:34That means that society will end.
51:36I can't imagine
51:38something like that.
51:40I can't imagine a world
51:42without women.
51:44Without them,
51:46humanity will come to an end.
51:50It is impossible.
51:52Man cannot live
51:54without his medium orange.
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