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Lancet Respir Med
April 2021
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, and the Jane & Leonard Korman Respiratory Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. Electronic address:
Indian J Med Ethics
January 2019
Professor, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.,
It is five years since the fatal gang rape of Jyothi Singh (Nirbhaya), a physiotherapy student, on December 16, 2012, in New Delhi, the capital of India. The legal and policy reforms triggered by the Nirbhaya case will remain a watershed moment in the history of efforts towards seeking justice for survivors of gender-based violence in India. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 and the "Guidelines and protocols: Medico-legal care for survivors/victims of sexual violence" issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in March 2014 are two landmark reforms.
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