Human Rights Law Network is striving to not only guarantee access to healthcare, but to assure that said healthcare is of a high quality, and is dignified for the patient.
All too often, we are collecting numerous reports of patients dying unnecessarily due to a lack of ambulances, hospitals operating under appalling conditions with no electricity and water, and healthcare staff acting disrespectfully and abusively towards patients. Many women reported neglecting to attend a hospital at all because they were so frightened of reports that they had heard regarding how staff members treat patients.
Many fact-findings conducted by HRLN where a mother or infant has died has concluded that the reason for the death can be contributed to negligence and malpractice by the doctor and other healthcare staff. Patients are being verbally harassed, insulted, physically beaten, made to share beds with multiple people, and sometimes imprisoned in healthcare centres when they cannot afford fees. This is a clear violation of the rights to life, freedom from discrimination, the right to health, and freedom from torture.
HRLN is constantly conducting fact-finding missions and subsequently filing public interest litigation petitions based on findings when a poor standard of care is resulting in morbidity and mortality. It is absolutely vital that everybody receives affordable, accessible, sanitary and high quality healthcare, with no fear of disrepsect or abuse.
Quality of Care
Patna High Court gives favourable order in response to the PIL on water logging in the state
Bihar, Education, Impact, Issues, Landmark, Litigation, Maternal Health, News, Quality of Care, States, Uncategorized, WORKIn response to the ongoing PIL on the issue of water clogging in Patna, Bihar, the Patna High Court has directed that a team be constituted and that actions be taken immediately.
“…In that view of the matter, this Court directs that the garbage should be lifted without delay, in
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Guwahati High Court delivers landmark judgement; Department of Health and Family Welfare to pay Twenty Five Lakh Rupees to Petitioner in Nagaland
Case, Images, Issues, Landmark, Litigation, Maternal Health, Nagaland, News, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, States, Update
18.11.2019: In a landmark judgement, The Department to pay Twenty Five Lakh Rupees to Moba Changkai, Monyakshu village, Nagaland.
Synopsis of the case: Mon District, the eastern part of Nagaland is one of the most backward districts in the state. Monyakshu, the biggest village
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Book Launch : Women’s Press Corps, New Delhi
Access to Contraceptives, Adolescents' Sexual Health and Rights, Andra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Child Marriage, Delhi, Education, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, HIV & AIDS, Images, Issues, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Landmark, Litigation, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Maternal Health, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, New Delhi, News, Odisha, Publication, Publication, Punjab, Quality of Care, Rajasthan, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, Sex Selection, Sikkim, States, Sterilisation, Tamil Nadu, Transgender Rights, Tripura, Update, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, WORK
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.
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CLAIMING DIGNITY – USING LAW TO ADVANCE REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH RIGHTS
Access to Contraceptives, Adolescents' Sexual Health and Rights, Andra Pradesh, Articles, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Case, Chhattisgarh, Child Marriage, Delhi, Education, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, HIV & AIDS, Images, Impact, Issues, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Landmark, Litigation, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Maternal Health, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, New Delhi, News, Odisha, Publication, Publication, Punjab, Quality of Care, Rajasthan, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, Sex Selection, Sikkim, States, Sterilisation, Tamil Nadu, Transgender Rights, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, WORK
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
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THE CONDITION OF MOHALLA CLINICS IN DELHI AND THE FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO PREGNANT AND LACTATING MOTHERS
Articles, Case, Delhi, Images, Issues, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, States, Update
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
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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