Did anyone else see this article in the Guardian? Does anyone else know any more about it? As it stands, it's a shocking story.

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/15/uk-aid-forced-sterilisation-india

I did read it and found it believable. Of course the long term solution is to educate the women and girls but as usual the people at the very bottom of the heap are being exploited. It is heart breaking.
And I have heard women in Europe saying feminism is no longer needed. How selfish and short-sighted can anyone get?

I have heard forced sterilisation also takes place in chiana

I don't know much about how aid monies are spent in India, but I do lobby the UN for money to provide education for girls and women worldwide. Education for girls has to be the key in changing such practices.

And we give aid to a country that has its own space and nuclear programmes?

We do. Apparently it's about "buying" goodwill.

Another expression for 'buying' international goodwill might be .......... 'it's business'.

Both women and men are sterilised, it says in the article. Has anyone else read A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry? An excellent book - talks about this issue which is not a recent one.

Yes, one of my all time favourite books, eff.

No , how terrible

Enforced sterilisation is one of the themes of Midnight's Children, so it's far from being new news.

Butternut

It is a shoking story and not new.