#SelfieWithDaughter: Indian PM’s Campaign Unites The World

To tackle India’s twisted sex ratio, India’s Prime Minister recently launched a social media campaign urging parents to tweet photos of themselves with their daughters and help improve welfare of girls and combat female infanticide in India. He asked them to use the hashtag #SelfieWithDaughter to educate people about the disproportionate gender ratio in India and the joy of daughters.

In Haryana, a village Sarpanch initiated a #SelfieWithDaughter initiative: PM @narendramodi

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) June 28, 2015

I urge all of you, share a #SelfieWithDaughter. Also share a tagline that will encourage ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ : PM @narendramodi — PMO India (@PMOIndia) June 28, 2015

The idea was adopted from Haryana, an Indian state where a head of the village was seeking to improve the state’s reputation as the state with the worst sex ratio. Haryana, with just 834 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of six years old, stood last in a list ranking states according to their child sex ratio in the 2011 census.

Thousands of people from India and abroad took to Twitter to post pictures of themselves with their daughters helping #SelfieWithDaughter trend worldwide in no time.

Supporting from Sweden. #SelfieWithDaughter My everything in life. pic.twitter.com/u9y1knYV4M

— SwedishRacing (@Swedish_Racing) June 28, 2015

#SelfieWithDaughter @PMOIndia Whether in #India or #America or the world, nothing more important than our daughters! pic.twitter.com/hR1C8OA9Oc — Kevin Philipp (@Kphilipp_) June 28, 2015

Love all women. #SelfieWithDaughter pic.twitter.com/Qvvzc6uqTD

— J.R. Calvo-Ferrer (@jr_cf) June 30, 2015

#SelfieWithDaughter becoming a lawyer. Congrats on initiative to: @PMOIndia @SrBachchan @narendramodi @SirEmilyCole pic.twitter.com/pj5eV8TgEM — Mr. Kenneth Cole (@mr_kennethcole) June 30, 2015

@narendramodi #SelfieWithDaughter #selfiewithdad from Holland & UK on my recent wedding day! #genderequality pic.twitter.com/vFhWGfefkY

— Desiree Dils Lugg (@DesireeDils) July 4, 2015

The moment I held my daughter for the first time… China 2005 #SelfieWithDaughter pic.twitter.com/jjmGOjGFG8 — Love Heals… (@ru4peace2) June 28, 2015

Love India PM’s concept of #SelfieWithDaughter. Very proud of my daughter, Kathleen. Photo @FourSeasons Thailand! pic.twitter.com/MET01FJWWE

— Jim Byers (@JimByersTravel) June 28, 2015

PM of India @narendramodi: TY for #SelfieWithDaughter. When you raise a daughter, you raise a nation! pic.twitter.com/E3RrjfLpnQ — Filiberto Gonzalez (@gofiliberto) June 28, 2015

Happy to join @narendramodi‘s #SelfieWithDaughter with this morning’s sacred moment in #Jerusalem @RabbiAssembly pic.twitter.com/0lbGdD6sRt

— R. Menachem Creditor (@rabbicreditor) June 28, 2015

Dear @narendramodi Thanks for the #SelfieWithDaughter idea. Here’s from Africa.. with lots of love pic.twitter.com/pMUF6nQThP — Nnenna (@nnenna) June 28, 2015

Love the #SelfieWithDaughter campaign. My selfie with my daughter Yashasvini @narendramodi. #BetiBachaoBetiPadhao pic.twitter.com/gbbaBlsuj2

— Naveen Jindal (@MPNaveenJindal) June 29, 2015

I’m not Indian, but here’s my #SelfieWithDaughter anyway. Look at those eyes! pic.twitter.com/sHmzqtlpJr — Frank Cornelia (@Frank_Cornelia) June 29, 2015

The 2011 Census shows that there are 37 million more men than women in India. In 2014, a report by the United Nations Women titled “Sex Ratios and Gender Biased Sex Selection” found that India currently has 110 boys born for every 100 girls born; the typical sex ratio at birth is 105 males for every 100 females.  A report released by India’s Planning Commission for the years 2012-2017 called this imbalance as, “a silent demographic disaster in the making”.

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