Fact-finding

Serious human rights violations occur across the world on a daily basis, yet very few, if any, are reported, either in the international media, academia or in the public sphere more generally. Fact finding missions allow for these violations to be documented and publicised and therefore create a space where human rights violations can be exposed and hopefully, in the future, prevented.

 

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 The activists from the Initiative on a fact finding mission to Chhattisgarh

Undertaking fact finding missions is a key strategy of the Reproductive Rights Initiative. The Initiative has conducted numerous fact findings in thirteen Indian states since 2011. Fact finding reports are used by the Initiative to support legal and social interventions on a wide range of reproductive and sexual rights. The Initiative has coordinated fact findings on subjects as diverse as the international surrogacy industry, child marriage, unsafe and unlawful sterilization and medical services available to pregnant and lactating homeless women. By working closely with local activists, advocates and NGOs, the Initiative ensures that its fact findings are as accurate, informative and reliable as possible. The Initiative has successfully utilised fact finding reports as evidence of human rights violations in the Indian courts and as advocacy tools to show the need for higher standards of reproductive and sexual rights.

 

Research & Fact-finding

Assessment of Implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojna

Assam, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding

Maternal death is one of the biggest issues of concern in India. To combat the increasing maternal mortality rate (MMR), and to provide basic primary health care delivery system in rural areas, Government of India (GOI) introduced National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005 which is now ....
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Mother Forced to sell her baby – Chirang

Assam, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding

Even though Indian government has adopted schemes and program providing safe motherhood period to women but there is huge gap in the implementation of the schemes. One such instance we witness where a women was compelled to sell off her new born baby in order to pay her ....
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Non implementation of IPHS, JSB Hospital

Assam, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding

The Indian Constitution provides right to health as one of the fundamental rights in corollary to right to life. Yet people are deprived of the basic health services. This leads to the violations for their fundamental rights, non implementation of Supreme Court orders on maternal health and provisions of ....
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Maternal Health Service – Sonitpur

Assam, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding

In yet another fact finding conducted by Human Rights Law Network in Sonitpur, Assam, a clear violation of a woman’s fundamental rights enshrined in schemes, the Constitution of India, and international lawwas observed. The fact finding team visited Rajini Satwal’s family in Sonitpur District and found ....
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The condition of Rohingya Refugees Camp, Kalindi Kunj, and their Fundamental Rights

Maternal Health, New Delhi, Research and Fact Finding

According to the United Nations, the Rohingya comprise one of the world’s most persecuted minority groups. The Rohingya people are a Muslim minority from the Rakhine state of Myanmar. Since 1982, the Government of Myanmar has officially classified the Rohingya as stateless Bengali Muslims. The Myanmar Government failed to ....
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