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Chris Smith: The global crisis of missing girls constitutes a gross human rights abuse--which is aptly described as gendercide--the…

On the recordFebruary 2, 2016
The global crisis of missing girls constitutes a gross human rights abuse--which is aptly described as gendercide--the extermination of the girl child in society simply because she happens to be a girl.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith describes the issue of gendercide as a significant human rights violation.

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