India’s Congress Party has opposed the government’s proposed DNA databank bill, citing massive loopholes and a threat to privacy. Congress has called for withdrawal of the bill a... Read more

Read the Forensic Genetics Policy Initiative’s preliminary analysis of India’s DNA Bill in The Hindu. In short, important safeguards and a cost-benefit analysis are still lacking... Read more

Any Revision Should Fully Respect Right to Privacy The Constitutional Court’s decision on October 5, 2017 to strike down Kuwait’s overly broad DNA law is a positive step for the right to pri... Read more

The Forensic Genetics Policy Initiative report: Establishing Best Practice for Forensic DNA Databases is now available on: http://dnapolicyinitiative.org/report/ This report was developed by... Read more

Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah instructed the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to reexamine the DNA law in accordance with Kuwait’s constitutio... Read more

Kuwait is about to become the first country to require all citizens, expatriates, residents and visitors to provide a DNA sample to the government database. The law, that is expected to go i... Read more

Kuwait is about to become the first country to require all citizens, expatriates, residents and visitors to provide a DNA sample to the government’s database. The law, which is expected to g... Read more

Kuwait is about to become the first country to require all citizens, expatriates, residents and visitors to provide a DNA sample to the government database. The law was ratified in 2015, a w... Read more

In Kuwait, citizenship is passed down by bloodline. With Kuwaits new DNA law, which is expected to go into effect this year, we might see an unprecedented mission of citizenship enforcement... Read more

The UN Human Rights Committee, composed of 18 international experts, called on Kuwait to amend its compulsory DNA testing law, saying that it was disproportionate and violated the right to p... Read more