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
Breaking: ‘Sex With a Minor Wife is Rape’, Supreme Court Rules
Child Marriage, Issues, Landmark, Litigation, News, WORK
A two Judge Bench of Supreme Court held that sexual intercourse with minor wife is rape and a case can be registered against the Husband.
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today read down exception 2 to Section 375 (which defines rape) of the IPC (as amended by the Criminal
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Madhya Pradesh State Government fined Rs 10,000 by the High Court for failure to respond to PIL
Impact, Litigation, Madhya Pradesh, Maternal Health, States, WORK
HRLN received at order from the High Court of Madhya Pradesh dated September 2017. The petitioner had filed a PIL regarding the violation of schemes guaranteed under the National Health Mission, such as JSY and JSSK, which are supposed to provide access to free maternal healthcare to those who
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Positive order from the High Court of Chhattisgarh regarding the presence of doctors at medical facilties
Chhattisgarh, Impact, Litigation, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, States, WORK
HRLN received a positive order from the High Court of Chhattisgarh in September 2017 which directed the State Government authorities 'to take all requisite steps to ensure that due facilities are made available through the District Hospital Sukma as well as Community Health Centres and Primary Health Centres in that district
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Positive order passed in the High Court of Chhattisgarh regarding the quality of care in Gaurela CHC
Case, Chhattisgarh, Impact, Issues, Litigation, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, States, WORK
On the 22nd September 2017, in Kali Bai W/o Sita Ram Kasar vs. Union of India & Ors., the High Court of Chhattisgarh delivered an order regarding the quality of care in Gaurela CHC, which the petitioner's daughter had died at during delivery due to a lack of functional medical facilities.
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2017 Orders from the Delhi High Court
Case, Delhi, HIV & AIDS, Impact, Litigation, Quality of Care, States, WORK
View the orders received in the Delhi High Court in 2017 as a result of HRLN's litigation efforts.
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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