Earlier this year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the indefinite retention of the DNA profiles of individuals convicted of a criminal offence in Northern Ireland was a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on H... Read more

GeneWatch UK has written to the Prime Minister and all ministers in the Government of Rwanda warning of the dangers of a universal DNA database. The letter follows reports that Rwanda is planning to create the first ever DNA database for all cit... Read more

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 and for the government to introduce a comprehensive data... 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. The Bill needs further improvement, and full parliame... 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 privacy in the country, Human Rights Watch and GeneWatch s... 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 the Forensic Genetics Policy Initiative using an innov... 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 constitution and in a manner that safeguards privacy rights and se... 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 into effect in November, was ratified in 2015, a week af... 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 go into effect in November, has now been legally challen... 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 week after the bombing of a Shiite mosque in Kuwait City... Read more