Written by 
Article content OTTAWA — Health Minister Mark Holland says the federal government will launch consultations this fall about expanding the medical assistance in dying regime to include advanced requests, and will not launch any legal action to challenge the Quebec law that will authorize such advance requests as of Wednesday. But Holland said such requests […]
Tl;dr On 13 September 2024, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (“MoHFW”) issued the draft Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Rules, 2024 (“COTPA Amendment Rules”) for public consultation, with a deadline of October 12, 2024 for submitting comments. The COTPA […]
tl;dr India’s move towards large-scale digitalisation has necessitated a critical look at law and policy instruments governing the space—which commonly appear to be vague, arbitrary, exclusionary, or fail to place human rights at their core. New laws and digital interventions seem to share the lack of public consultations and stakeholder participation. A spike in public-private […]