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
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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Yazali CHC Fact Finding Report Arunachal Pradesh
Access to Contraceptives, Arunachal Pradesh, Case, Images, Issues, Litigation, Maternal Health, News, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, States, Update, WORK
01.06.2019: In light of the statistical data about both Arunachal Pradesh and Lower Subansiri, which have been presented in the introduction, this fact-finding report seeks to investigate the fulfilment of the right to health, in the form of the
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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 Report – Infant Deaths due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome
Articles, Assam, Bihar, Case, Education, Images, Issues, Landmark, Litigation, News, Publication, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, States, Update, WORK
01.07.2019: A team of social activists and lawyers from Human Rights Law Network, Patna visited Muzaffarpur on a fact-finding mission relating to the deaths of children due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome. The team visited villages including Ali Neura, Mustafapur, Kanti Block’s
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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