Author Talia Carner selected to speak about Gendercide at United Nations Commission on Women
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Award-Winning Author and Human Rights Advocate Talia Carner Puts Female Infanticide on the Agenda at The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
- NEW YORK, NY, February 14, 2007 - Business and Professional Women International (BPWI) has selected Talia Carner, author of "Puppet Child" and "China Doll" and human rights advocate to be a guest speaker at the 51st session of The NGO UN Committee on the Status of Women on March 5th, 2007 in New York City. The topic of Ms. Carner"s presentation is "Gendercide In China--Time to Break The Silence."
"Efforts to improve women"s economic participation typically begin when women are old enough to work," said Chonchanok Viravan, BPW International President. "Attention must be focused on a problem that upsets the balance of women"s economic participation at the earliest stage in life—the infanticide of baby girls. This problem is the extreme form of violation of the basic human rights—to live. Talia"s extensive research and analysis of the issue, and her work as both an advocate and a novelist make her uniquely prepared to direct the spotlight onto this subject."
Carner"s latest novel, CHINA DOLL [Windsprint Press, 304 p. ISBN# 0-9773821-2-5] resulted from her investigation of gendercide in China and the horror of the "dying rooms,"—the systematic fatal neglect in Chinese orphanages of which she had learned about during her participation at the 1995 International Women"s Conference in Beijing. With the recent publication of Carner"s book, she has found herself a lone voice against gendercide. Only India of all developing and industrial nations demonstrates a similar widespread deselection of females.
"The 1.7 million missing babies each year in China alone have no one to speak for them. The complicity of the Chinese government ensures the systematic death of many of these baby girls," says Carner. "When the one-child-policy was introduced in a society with a strong traditional preference for boys, the government of the People"s Republic of China failed to properly address the issue. Even now, with legislation against sex-selective abortions and abandonment of children, local adoption of abandoned babies is discouraged through bureaucratic and financial hurdles and a loophole in the law allows local officials to abdicate responsibility for what happens to baby girls," Carner adds.
Other distinguished speakers on the topic of violence against women and girls include Nobel Prize winner and member of BPWI Villafranca, Italy, Dr. Rita Levi Montalcini, who lived underground during the occupation of Italy in order to pursue her research in medicine and surgery.
International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPWI) is one of the most influential international women"s organizations in the world, with members in over 80 countries in the five continents, and for the past 60 years it has held consultative status to the United Nations. BPWI"s goal is to develop women"s professional and leadership potential at all levels and to strive toward equal participation of women and men in power and decision-making.
About the Author of CHINA DOLL: Talia Carner was the publisher of Savvy Woman magazine. A former adjunct professor at Long Island University School of Management and a founder of her own marketing consulting firm to Fortune 500 companies, she was also a counselor and lecturer for the Small Business Administration, a member of United States Information Agency missions to Russia, and a participant at the 1995 International Women"s Conference in Beijing. Ms. Carner"s first novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in "The Top 10 Favorite First Novels 2002" by BookBrowse and launched a nationwide legislation that became the platform for two Senatorial candidates. CHINA DOLL was recently nominated for ForeWord"s "Book of the Year" and USA Book News" "Best of 2006" awards. Her personal essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times and in literary magazines and anthologies.
For Additional Information, please check the author"s website at: www.TaliaCarner.com
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