Madam, - For maximum impact, Trócaire's Lenten campaign against gender inequality should highlight where by far the most egregious inequalities against females are perpetrated:
(a) throughout the billion-strong Islamic world (where the Koran mandates discrimination:
(b) in the selective abortion of millions of female babies across China (with its one-child policy) and India.
Trócaire should then describe how it intends to spend the money collected to attempt to redress these abuses. Properly focused, this is a truly worthy cause. - Yours, etc,
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TONY ALLWRIGHT, Killiney, Co Dublin.