强调导致产前胎儿性别选择和杀害女婴的重男轻女现象,是一种没有充分记载的歧视女童的形式,对整个社会有重大影响,体现为女婴死亡率高和男女两性比例扭曲,并关切地注意到这种做法的不良社会影响包括贩卖人口,并强调这些有害做法中的一些做法与贫穷和欠发达有关,在农村地区尤为如此
Emphasizing that manifestations of son preference that result in prenatal sex selection and female infanticide are an underdocumented form of discrimination against the girl child and have significant repercussions on society as a whole, expressed in high rates of female infant mortality and distorted male-female sex ratios, and noting with concern the adverse social consequences of such practices, including trafficking in persons, and that some of those harmful practices, especially in rural areas, are linked to poverty and underdevelopment