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5th year Law student at Amity Law School, Delhi, Guru Gobind Singh, Indraprastha University.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued guidelines for medico-legal care for survivors of sexual violence in 2014 after the Supreme Court of India found the test to violate fundamental rights. They wanted to get rid of things like the ‘two-finger test’. However, a report in 2017 by Human Rights Watch found that doctors continue to conduct the “invasive, humiliating, and inhumane finger test to make degrading characterizations”.
Read MoreThe leaders are mindful of the pressing need for implementing population control policies that are to be put in place to better the populace rather than politicizing such issues, which will be harmful to them, India's citizens, and future generations writes Prachi Dubey, a 5th year Law student at Amity Law School, Delhi, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.
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