-TheWire.in Irrespective of the marital status of women, Access to safe abortion services and quality post-abortion care, including counselling, need to be legally guaranteed. On February 28, 2017, the Supreme Court refused to allow a woman to abort her 26-week-old foetus that would be born with Down syndrome, a congenital disorder that postpones the onset of developmental and intellectual features. Admitting that the child may suffer from physical and mental abnormalities, the...

-TheWire.in Aadhaar and its many connotations have grown to be among the most burning issues on the Indian fore today, that every citizen aware of their rights should be taking note of. New Delhi: With the leak of 130 million Aadhaar numbers recently coming to light, several activists, lawyers and ordinary citizens are up in arms about what is increasingly being viewed as a government surveillance system. Keeping this in mind, on...

-The Hindu ‘Historically disadvantaged groups most excluded from Access to public goods’ Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims continue to be the worst-hit communities in terms of exclusion from Access to public goods, according to the 2016 Indian Exclusion Report (IXR) released by the Centre for Equity Studies (CES) in New Delhi on Wednesday. “The 2016 Report reviews exclusion with respect to four public goods: pensions for the elderly, digital Access, agricultural land, and legal...

-The Hindu The core issues are affordable Access to medicines and their rational prescription and use The Medical Council of India (MCI) issued a circular on April 21 drawing attention to clause 1.5 of its regulations regarding the professional conduct of doctors: “Every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters and he/she shall ensure that there is a rational prescription of drugs.” Further, the circular said,...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Union home ministry has asked nearly 6,000 of the 13,000 registered NGOs in the country receiving foreign donations to open accounts in nationalised banks to facilitate constant surveillance of their activities. The NGOs have accounts in cooperative banks or state-owned banks, which do not have core-banking facilities. "To maintain surveillance on the activities of NGOs receiving foreign funds, the ministry wants all NGOs registered under the Foreign Contribution...