Patna High Court: Ration facility for all transgender persons
Due to the COVID- 19 outbreak, people are not receiving the basic entitlements. The Transgender Community is facing a bigger obstacles in these challenging times. HRLN filed a petition when 6 trans person could not avail food grains due to the non possession of ration cards. The Patna High ..... Read More
Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle
Amendment of (MTP) Act 71 is on its way: The Union Cabinet on 29.01.2020 approved extending the upper limit for permitting abortions from the present 20 weeks to 24 weeks. The Cabinet permitted the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to amend the Medical Termination of ..... Read More
CLAIMING DIGNITY – USING LAW TO ADVANCE REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH RIGHTS
31.10.2019 – The history of medicine and reproductive health in India is one in which women were merely mute beneficiaries rather than the active agents that they should have been. It is cluttered by scandals involving mass hysterectomies, illegal and unethical ..... Read More
THE CONDITION OF MOHALLA CLINICS IN DELHI AND THE FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO PREGNANT AND LACTATING MOTHERS
The Fact-Finding was conducted across 9 Mohalla Clinics and 1 polyclinic on 17th June 2019. 6 interns, in a team of two members each conducted the fact-finding across 9 districts in Delhi. The interns were from different Law Universities. Hence, the ..... Read More
NON ACCESSIBILITY OF MATERNAL BENEFIT SCHEME IN MANSAROVAR, NEW DELHI
On 14.05.19, a team from HRLN visited Mansarovar Park, in New Delhi to assess the administration of schemes ( JSSK, JSY and PMMVY) and interviewed the pregnant and lactating women. The purpose of the investigation was to assess the following: 1. To determine when ..... Read More
Litigation
- Presentations from the Two Day Webinar on Reproductive Rights on 23rd & 24th of May, 2020
- Patna High Court: Ration facility for all transgender persons
- Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle
- Patna High Court gives favourable order in response to the PIL on water logging in the state
- Guwahati High Court delivers landmark judgement; Department of Health and Family Welfare to pay Twenty Five Lakh Rupees to Petitioner in Nagaland
Fact Finding
- Presentations from the Two Day Webinar on Reproductive Rights on 23rd & 24th of May, 2020
- Report on the State level Consultation in Arunachal Pradesh on 2nd & 3rd November, 2019
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Dictionary
News
- Report of the two day webinar on ‘Access to Reproductive Justice’ on 23rd & 24th May, 2020
- Report of the National level consultation on Trans people and women’s issues- 28th & 29th December, 2019
- Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle