Vietnam: Gender-biased sex selections Explained

“Must a girl be of lesser value than a boy?" Wen Xiujuan asked, after having two daughters.

At the start of April, more than 122,000 people fanned out across Viet Nam, pursuing information about every single person in the country. They are enumerators for the country’s housing and population census – one of the largest and most complex peacetime exercises a nation can...

“I’ve been a priest for 25 years. During this time, I’ve met a lot of families ready to terminate their pregnancy just because of expecting a girl,” said Giorgi Ugrekhelidze, a religious leader in Georgia. “In most cases, men push their wives to make this decision.”