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
Delhi fact finding Report on Conditions of Female Sterilization in Delhi
Research and Fact Finding, Sterilisation
In response to the submission of the counter affidavit by the Government of the National Capital Territory (N.C.T.) of Delhi (Respondent No. 10) in the case of Devika Biswas v. Union of India and Ors. (W.P Civil 95/2012) regarding unsafe and unlawful sterilizations, the Human Rights Law Network conducted
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A fact-finding report on TB Control DOTS Centres in Delhi
Maternal Health, New Delhi, Research and Fact Finding
In June 2012, a Human Rights Law Network fact-finding team (hereafter “the team”) conducted an investigation on four different DOTS centres in Delhi. The purpose of the investigation was to determine if standards for tuberculosis (TB) control are implemented in DOTS centres in Delhi. To that end, the team
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A Fact-Finding Report on Surrogacy in Anand
Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding
In April 2012, a Human Rights Law Network (“HRLN”) fact-finding team (“the team”) visited various villages outside of Anand, Gujarat to investigate the status of the Indian surrogacy industry.
There, the team met with a variety of players in the surrogacy industry. The team interviewed numerous former and current surrogates,
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Follow Up Fact-Finding Report: Priya Kale vs. GNCT of Delhi and Ors
Maternal Health, New Delhi, Research and Fact Finding
To determine whether the Respondents were complying with the Hon’ble High Court’s orders, issued 1st February 2013 in Priya Kale vs. Government of NCT Delhi and Ors., W.P. (C) 641/2013, a Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) fact-finding team of social activists and the concerned advocate (hereafter “the team”) visited
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Fact-Finding Report on Compliance with National Sterilization Guidelines – Sterilization Camp in Kawi Village
Haryana, Research and Fact Finding, Sterilisation
In March 2008, the government of India’s Family Planning Division of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued guidelines for sterilization services in camps. All sterilization camps in the country must abide by these guidelines. A team of health rights activists visited the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in
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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