Through the process of litigation, both individual and PILs, the initiative creates an alternative method to hold government accountable of their legal duties. It has moved the courts to set both a national and international legal precedent by ensuring accountability for maternal death. The initiative actively provides pro bono legal aid for the poor, marginalised and vulnerable whose reproductive health rights have been violated.
Litigation
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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Mistreatment and Coercion: Unethical Sterilization in India
Access to Contraceptives, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Images, Impact, Issues, Landmark, Litigation, Madhya Pradesh, Maternal Health, News, Publication, Publication, Quality of Care, Rajasthan, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Sterilisation, WORK
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
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My Body My Choice – A Human Rights Perspective of Abortion Law in India
Articles, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Case, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Images, Impact, Issues, Karnataka, Landmark, Litigation, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Maternal Health, Nagaland, New Delhi, Odisha, Publication, Publication, Rajasthan, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, States, West Bengal, WORK
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
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Yazali CHC Fact Finding Report Arunachal Pradesh
Access to Contraceptives, Arunachal Pradesh, Case, Images, Issues, Litigation, Maternal Health, News, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, States, Update, WORK
01.06.2019: In light of the statistical data about both Arunachal Pradesh and Lower Subansiri, which have been presented in the introduction, this fact-finding report seeks to investigate the fulfilment of the right to health, in the form of 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