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Ban on import of animal-tested cosmetics: Activists celebrate 'historic victory for animals'

Source: The Times of India, Date: , 2014

India has become the first country in south Asia to completely ban the import of animal tested cosmetics, much to the joy of activists who had been consistently lobbying for it. Humane Society International/India's #BeCruelty Free campaign is also celebrating the "historic victory for animals" due to this ban. Coming just few months after implementation of a national ban on cruel cosmetics testing in India's labs, the import ban now makes India the first cruelty-free cosmetics zone in south Asia and an example for other nations to follow.

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