Bihar

Book Launch : Women’s Press Corps, New Delhi


    06.11.2019 -Report on Launch of “My Body, My Choice – A Human Rights Perspective of Abortion Law in India” and “Claiming Dignity, Using Law to advance Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights” on 1st November, 2019, at the Women’s Press Corps, New Delhi.  Read ..... 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

Mistreatment and Coercion: Unethical Sterilization in India


  07.08.2019 – In September 2016, the Supreme Court of India directed the Union Government to ensure the discontinuation of ‘sterilization camps’ within the following three years and to induce the state governments to follow suit. It also charged the government to ..... Read More

My Body My Choice – A Human Rights Perspective of Abortion Law in India


  05.07.2019: Abortion has always been a highly contentious issue in the spheres of philosophy, religion, culture and politics. However, at the core of the debate on abortion is the question: who gets to decide to terminate a pregnancy? The tension between ..... Read More

Fact Finding Report – Infant Deaths due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome


    01.07.2019: A team of social activists and lawyers from Human Rights Law Network, Patna visited Muzaffarpur on a fact-finding mission relating to the deaths of children due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome. The team visited villages including Ali Neura, Mustafapur, Kanti Block’s ..... Read More