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The MTP Amendment Bill, 2014: India’s Beti Mar Do Campaign

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In its pursuit of introducing India’s civilisational values in the field of medicine, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led Government of India has proposed further amendments to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971 in October 2014 to allow AYUSH practitioners (excluding Yoga and Naturopathy), homeopaths, nurses and auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) to conduct […]

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Commutation of Koli’s death sentence a step towards providing timely access to justice to death row convicts

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New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights welcomed the commutation of death sentence of Surinder Singh Koli, prime accused of the Nithari serial killings, into life imprisonment by the Allahabad High Court today on the grounds of delay of three years and three months as a step towards providing timely access to justice to death row […]

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In a first, NHRC recommends commutation of death sentence of four death row convicts of the Bara massacre

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New Delhi: Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to commute the death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh @ Dharu Singh who were convicted in the Bara […]

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