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.
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
A Status Report on Sex Education and the Health of Young Indians
Adolescents' Sexual Health and Rights, Research and Fact Finding
In order “to enable fathering of a valiant and vibrant man life.” Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, 1996
Comprehensive sexual health educationhas caused much debate in India in the last few years as several states
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Fact-Finding Report on the Unnatural Prevalence of Hysterectomies in Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh, Research and Fact Finding
Chhattisgarh is a central-Indian state that up until 2000 had been a part of its neighbour state, Madhya Pradesh. As of the 2001 census, Chhattisgarh’s population totalled 20.83 million people. Comprised of 16 districts, Chhattisgarh is one of the least developed states in India notwithstanding that it is rich
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Jharkhand Fact finding Report Maternal Death In Godda District, Jharkhand
Research and Fact Finding
Maternal health in India is in a state of crisis, particularly in Jharkhand. Outside of Africa, India has one of the highest maternal mortality rates (MMR) in the world. An Indian woman dies in childbirth every eight minutes; her lifetime risk of maternal death is one out of seventy.
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Report: Access to Contraception and Women’s Experiences with the Public Health System
Haryana, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding
In February 2014 a health rights activist and two advocates from the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) traveled to three villages in Mewat District, Haryana to investigate women’s access to contraceptive information and services and state implementation of reproductive health schemes. The current unmet need or the percentage of
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Fact-Finding Report on the State of Public Health Facilities in Barwani District
Madhya Pradesh, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding
In 2011, the Human Rights Law Network filed a case in the Honourable High Court of Madhya Pradesh against the Government of Madhya Pradesh in W.P. PIL No. 5097 of 2011, Dunabai v. State of Madhya Pradesh and Others. The petition alleged that the Respondents had failed to install adequate
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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