The Global Walk for India's Missing Girls

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Last year the Petals In The Dust team founded the Global Walk for India's Missing Girls to create awareness of the gross human rights violations against millions of baby girls in India. Seven cities across four countries participated in the Walk.

This year the Movement has grown and the Global Walk will take place in over 15 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Agra, Kolkata, Chennai, Jamshedpur, Goa, Sri Ganganagar, Dubai, Toronto, Vancouver,Washington D.C and San Francisco on the occasion of International Women's Day.

The Global Walk for India's Missing Goals has several goals

• Protest the daily murder of over 7000 baby girls in India.
• To create awareness and remember the victims of this genocide.
• To pressure the Indian government to enforce the laws to protect these baby girls and their mothers
• To highlight non-profits and activists who are fighting to end female foeticide and infanticide in India and/or educate and empower girls and women

The Global Walk for India's Missing Girls - San Francisco Details

• Date: Saturday, 5th March 2011
• Time : 11 AM
• Location : Starts at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlet Place, San Francisco and ends at Union Square 

San Francisco Speakers

• Dr. Harmesh Kumar - Founder, SABH Foundation and SF Walk Sponsor
• Manju Seal, - American Marshall Fellow and President, Narika Board of Directors
• Baljit Sandhu - CEO of Sahaita
• Sudha Reddy - Coordinator, US Operations, Aarti Home  
• Ash Kalra - San Jose Councilmember

This will be followed by the singing of the Indian and American National Anthems lead by Manjula Gupta, a classical musician, champion of nonprofit organizations, and founder/host of the Chai with Manjula TV show.

Come join us and be part of this Global Movement to Save and Protect India's Girls !

E-mail us for more details at walkindiasf@gmail.com or look for us on Facebook - The Global Walk for India's Missing Girls- The Official

Global Walk Organizers and Participating Cities

Abhitej Singh - Chandigarh

Anupam Satyasheel- New York

Beaula Knauf - Goa

Dr. Harkesh Sandhu and Garima Kaur - Vancouver

Isaac Farias - Washington D.C

Jacqueline Colaco- Bangalore

Kashmir Singh- Toronto

Lakshmi Manoharan - Chennai

Maryanne Ekka-Jamshedpur

Dr.Mitu Khosla, Dr. Ash Pachauri and Bijayalakshmi Nanda - Delhi

Dr. Narendra Malhotra - Agra

Nyna Pais Caputi - San Francisco

Ruchira Chowdhary - Kolkata

Dr. Shambu Gupta - Sri Ganganagar

Shilpa Prabhu - Dubai

Sonal Alvares and Muktai Panchal-Mumbai 

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The First Annual Global Walk for India's Missing Girls

The first annual Walk for India's Missing Girls took place on March 6 and March 7, 2010 in San Francisco, Melbourne, Kuwait, Delhi, Mumbai, Jamshedpur and Pondicherry. The organizers for the Walk included Nyna Pais-Caputi, Founder of the Walk and SF walk organizer, Olive Saldanha- Kuwait walk organizer, Ravneet Kaur - Australia walk organizer, Zubin Paul Driver and Divya Talwar of Fight-Back, Mumbai walk organizers, Mitu Khurana and Bijayalakshmi Nanda 0f CAPF, Maryanne Ekka of Catholic Mahila Sangha, Jamshedpur walk organizer and Deepu Thomas of Pondicherry Univeristy, Pondicherry walk organizer.

"On Saturday, March 6th, hundreds of people marched in the streets of Australia, India, Kuwait, and the United States to bring awareness to "gendercide," the killing of fetuses or infants because they are female, that has resulted in devastating gender imbalances in countries like China and India. The US leg of the march took place in San Francisco, The Walk for India's Missing Girls, started at the Golden Gate Park and ended at the Indian Embassy with a 2 minute silence."

--S.F Examiner

What did you set out to achieve through the walk? What do you think has been achieved really?

"There were several things that I wanted to achieve. I wanted women in India to realize that they are not alone and people from all over the world would join hands to help them fight for the lives of their daughters. By creating a global walk, we would get the attention of the Indian and international communities and hopefully some of them would come forward to assist the women in India. By organizing the walk in different parts of India, girls, women, school and college students would participate and not only create awareness but also realize themselves the value of the girl child and the necessity to fight female foeticide and infanticide. We had over 700 people participate in Jamshedpur, over 200 in Pondicherry and over 100 in Mumbai and Delhi. The global walk has been written about both in India and the US and the issues of female feticide and infanticide are becoming more public. I plan to make the ‘Walk for India’s Missing Girls’ an annual event and besides making it more global, my dream is to have every city, town and village in India, also organize this walk."

- Interview with Nyna Pais-Caputi, Founder of Walk for India's Missing Girls in the Christian Messenger