New Delhi, March 28 -- The International Olympics Committee (IOC) policy on the Protection of the Female Category has received backlash from human rights groups, legal luminaries, and women athletes from around the globe, with experts referring to the new guidelines mandating genetic testing for women athletes as "stigma-based" rather than "science-based." On Friday, a group of 69 academicians and human rights lawyers from the US, Canada, UK, Australia, India and European countries issued a joint statement against the policy, contending that it violated the domestic laws of various jurisdictions and international covenants, including the European Council's International Declaration on Human Genetic Data. "As several Special Procedures of th...