India rapped over birth bias 印度因嬰兒性別偏見遭譴責 　

India is seeking to get population growth down

印度正在尋求降低人口出生率的辦法

The United Nations Population Fund has taken India to task over its ratio of females to males.

In a report marking World Population Day, the Fund's Michael Vlassof said that India's commitment to tackling issues such as female foeticide and infanticide, which helped to give India one of the worst female-male ratios, seemed to be quite low.

The sex ratio in India, according to a recent survey, is 960 females to 1,000 males, and the Fund says it sees this imbalance as being due to the lower status of women in Indian society, to a preference for sons and the practices of female foeticide and infanticide.

聯合國人口基金會對印度男女比例的失調進行了批評。

在一份世界人口日的報告中，該基金會的Michael Vlassof說，在處理致使男女比例嚴重失調的墮女胎和殺女嬰問題上，印度似乎行動很慢。

最新調查結果表明，印度的男女比例是1000:960。該基金會說，它認為造成這一失衡的原因是婦女在印度社會中的較低地位、重男輕女的觀念以及墮女胎和殺女嬰行為。