{"id":207023,"date":"2022-09-21T20:49:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=207023"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T04:21:05","slug":"a-blow-for-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-blow-for-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"A blow for dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cA blow for dignity\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>21th September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Vulnerable sections<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; About conversion therapy<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the prevailing practice of conversion therapy in India and the legal framework to deal with this inhumane practice.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are steps taken by various bodies to stop the practice of forceful conversion?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Recently Madras High Court in <strong>S. Sushma vs Commissioner of Police<\/strong> prohibited conversion therapy in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p>The National Medical Commission directed all State Medical Commissions to ban conversion.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court in <strong>Navtej Singh Johar<\/strong> decriminalized homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is conversion therapy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a range of dangerous practices that falsely claim to change a person&#8217;s sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>It consists of diverse methods like counselling, correctional rape, shock therapy and electro-convulsion.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the limitations of the existing legal framework?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There is no express provision in Indian law restricting conversion therapy. Only <strong>civil liability<\/strong> can be attached to doctors, who practice conversion therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Only forceful conversion is considered illegal. It continues to take place through other forms.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Our constitution promises <strong>dignity<\/strong> to every citizen. Practices like conversion therapy denies dignity to an individual.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need for stringent and effective legislation that bans the practice of conversion therapy.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need to put <strong>criminal liability<\/strong> on persons who indulge in this practice.<\/p>\n<p>Our constitution promises dignity to every citizen. Practices like conversion therapy denies dignity to an individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cA blow for dignity\u201d published in The Hindu on 21th September 2022. Syllabus: GS2- Vulnerable sections Relevance&#8211; About conversion therapy News&#8211; The article explains the prevailing practice of conversion therapy in India and the legal framework to deal with this inhumane practice. What are steps taken by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-blow-for-dignity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A blow for dignity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-207023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704745487},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}