50 Million Missing is an online campaign started by Rita Banerji to highlight the plight of Indian women. According to United Nations figures, there is a total of 50 million missing women in India. They have been purged deliberately, solely because of their gender, through due to abortion of female foetuses, female infanticide, and dowry murders.

Read more about them here.

The campaign has attracted the participation of both Indian and international photographers who have submitted their pictures, giving Indian women a face that society has denied their sisters.

Two of them share their photos with theasiamag.com here, and in their own words, tell the stories behind each and every shot.

 

 

Note from the editor: Our special thanks to our photographers for sharing their works with theasiamag.com.

View more photos by Chendur at www.flickr.com/photos/chendur

The works of our other contributing photographer Lars-Gunnar Svärd are at available at www.flickr.com/photos/imagesoftheworld/

Find out more about the 50 Million Missing project at www.flickr.com/groups/50_million_missing/

 

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