The publications produced by the initiative, aim to bring the various aspects of the law affecting the rights and guarantees to women in the Indian legal system. It also aims to make accessible important developments in human rights and law in India. It also produces “know-your-rights” materials to increase awareness among Indian women and their partners about contraception, family planning and other reproductive health issues.
Publication
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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Fact Finding Report on UPHC CHimpu – Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh, Case, Education, Images, Issues, Litigation, Maternal Health, Publication, Publication, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Update
01.07.2019: In light of the statistical data about both Arunachal Pradesh and Papum Pare, which has been presented in the introduction, this fact-finding report seeks to investigate the fulfilment of the right to health, in the form of the Indian Public
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Fact Finding on Non-Functioning of Blood bank in Balikuda CHC, Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha
Case, Images, Issues, Maternal Health, Odisha, Presentations, Publication, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Update
Date: 17.06.2019
A team of lawyers and researchers visited Balikuda, in Jagatsinghapur district, Odisha to gather information about causes of death of the woman; with a view to protect and enforce the basic, fundamental and human right to life under Article 21
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A critique of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018
Articles, Publication, States, Transgender Rights, Update
A critique of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2018
By Rachana Mudraboyina & Kranti L C
Rachana Mudraboyina a Trans Activist, one of the founding members of Telangana Intersex Hijra Transgender Samiti and founder of Transvision.
Kranti L C is a Queer Advocate
with Human Rights Law Network.
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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