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Indian Public Health Standards & Right to Health: A Case Study of Raga Primary Health Centre

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Amongst the various persisting health problems in India, one of the most pressing – both as a public health and as a human rights issue – is the lack of equal access to basic healthcare facilities. Despite a considerable progress, newly introduced government programmes and schemes ..... Read More

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Indian Public Health Standards & Right to Health: A Case Study of Ziro District Hospital

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“For a middle-income country of its stature and level of development, the rate of maternal deaths in India is shocking, raising multiple human rights issues” ..Paul Hunt, Special Rapporteur, Mission to India One of India’s most remote States, Arunachal Pradesh is also one of ..... Read More

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Delhi High Court recognises Maternal Deaths as a human rights violation

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Delhi High Court recognises Maternal Deaths as a human rights violation Laxmi Mandal v. Deen Dayal Harinagar Hospital & ORS, (W.P.(C) 8853/2008) High Court of Delhi In the year 2010, the Delhi High Court issued a landmark judgment where for the first time a constitutional court has recognised ..... Read More

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Petition to SC challenges ‘Criminalisation of Abortions’ after 20th week of pregnancy

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Mrs X and Mrs Y vs Union of India & Ors,challenges the Constitutional validity of section 3 (2) (b) of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971 (MTP Act). The MTP Act bans the medical termination of a pregnancy post 20 weeks, and therefore does not adequately take into ..... Read More

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The insensitive practice of Sterilisation ‘Drives’: A case from Bihar

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The irresponsible and target driven practice of ‘sterilization camps’ in India have resulted into an incident which completely violated the women’s right to life as we witness in the case, Devika Biswas v. Union of India & Ors. . In January, 2012, a sterilization camp was conducted in the ..... Read More

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