Claim: "More lives are lost from violence against women, sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, suicide, egregious maternal mortality, and other sex-linked causes than were lost during all of the wars and civil strife of the 20th century."
Fact-check: Emma Watson: More lives are lost due to gender discrimination than in all 20th century wars
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Linda Qiu
Date published: 2016-03-15T00:00:00