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
HIV-positive man says denied treatment, Delhi High Court orders enquiry
Delhi, HIV & AIDS, Impact, Issues, Litigation, Media Report, News, States, WORK
The Delhi High Court Wednesday pulled up two government hospitals and their doctors for allegedly denying treatment to an HIV-positive man, who had visited the facilities after sustaining injuries on his left leg and shoulder in an accident.
In the plea, the man claimed discrimination by Lok Nayak Jai Prakash
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HRLN receives positive order in UP Salenta Case
Impact, Issues, Litigation, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, States, Uttar Pradesh, WORK
Read the press release summary and full Allahabad High Court judgment below, which provides a damning statement on the state of public healthcare services in Uttar Pradesh.
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Positive Order Received in UP Fistula Case
Issues, Litigation, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, States, Uncategorized, Uttar Pradesh, WORK
Read the positive order received in a UP Fistula Case below.
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Supreme Court Orders 2017
Issues, Litigation, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, Safe Abortion, WORK
Available below are all of HRLN's Reproductive Rights Initative's 2017 Orders in the Supreme Court of India.
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Manipur Orders 2017
Issues, Litigation, Manipur, States, WORK
Available below are all of HRLN's Reproductive Rights Initative's 2017 Orders in the Manipur High Court.
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Litigation
- The Ministry of Health has announced the implementation of HIV and AIDS Act
- Oxytocin sale, production ban suspended by Delhi High Court till October, 2018
- Orders District authorities to be more vigilant, officials should be more sensitized: High Court of Patna on the PIL filed on Child marriage
- HRLN receives positive order regarding implementation of ICDS in Hajipur, Bihar
- Don’t insist on documents like Aadhaar to give benefits of maternity schemes: Delhi High Court
Fact Finding
- New HRLN Fact Finding Report: The Maternal Death of Lt. Tainyu at Panso Village of Nagaland
- New HRLN Fact Finding Report: RKSK’S Disha Clinics for Adolescents in Delhi
- New HRLN Fact-Finding Report: Medical Negligence in Dindori District Hospital, Madhya Pradesh
News
- The Ministry of Health has announced the implementation of HIV and AIDS Act
- Transgenders can file returns online, for now : Supreme Court of India
- Section 377 partially struck down: Supreme Court decriminalises consensual sex between same sex adults