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Human DNA Profiling Bill is being brought in Parliament probably this Monsoon session in 2015. Bill that has been pushed by the CDFD (Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad) with full support from India’s Dept of Biotechnology. It asks for the collection of DNA from convicts, accused ans suspects; unidentified dead bodies; create a missing persons’ index; create a volunteers index and from anyone else as required by regulations. here is to be a DNA Data Bank into which all our DNA data will be out and held.

Event marking 30 years of Narmada Bachao Andolan / Save the Narmada Movement held in New Delhi

Photos from Delhi - Jantar Mantar Sit In on 16 July 2015
PRESS RELEASE
Demonstrations and are being held today in different cities in solidarity with Teesta Setalvad, Javed Anand and their colleagues. Intellectuals, academicians, students, artists, activists, teachers and ordinary people are coming out outraged by the blatant misuse of state machinery to hound and persecute a group of courageous human rights defenders. The latest raids by the Central Bureau of Investigation into their (…)

Citizens For Democracy strongly deplores the vicious persecution and
harassment of leading human rights activists Teesta Setalvad and
Javed Anand by the CBI at the behest of the ruling party at the Centre and the State of Gujrat. For the past about 30 years both Teesta and Javed have been relentlessly pursuing and espousing variety of causes in defence of human rights, especially of dalits, minorities and other deprived sections of society.

India’s apex court has ruled that an unwed mother does not have to take consent from the biological father of the child, or reveal his identity for sole guardianship of the child .