Flipkart Removes Publications Promoting Sex Selection

New Delhi, 23rd April: Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce market place has finally de-listed all the publications promoting sex selection from its website after Girls Count initiated an online petition against the sale in February 2015. Over 11,900 supporters had endorsed the petition which led Flipkart to take note of the discriminatory practice.

Girls Count Press Release on International Day of the Girl Child

On October 11, 2014, as the world celebrates International Day of the Girl Child, more than 200 civil society organisations in alliance with Girls Count will urge the President of India to act against gender-biased sex selection.

Stop selling books on sex selection: Girls Count to e-commerce websites

On International Women's Day, civil society urges Amazon.in, Flipkart and Junglee to remove publications promoting gender-based sex selection from their websites.