The Constitution of India provides fundamental protections for all Indians. Most crucially, the constitution protects the Right to Life and a number of derivative rights, including the right to health and the right to be free from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. The Government of India has developed a number of specific laws to address reproductive rights issues including child marriage, medical termination of pregnancy and sex selection.
To correct fundamental rights violations and to improve the reproductive rights situation in India, the government of India has developed a number of schemes to improve healthcare, to increase institutional deliveries, and to encourage healthy behaviour. Finally, India is a party to a number of international human rights conventions that obligate the government to protect, promote, respect and fulfill reproductive rights.
This section provides a brief overview of existing legal protections in India.
Laws
Patna High Court: Ration facility for all transgender persons
Articles, Bihar, Case, Impact, Issues, Litigation, Quality of Care, States, Transgender Rights, WORKDue to the COVID- 19 outbreak, people are not receiving the basic entitlements. The Transgender Community is facing a bigger obstacles in these challenging times. HRLN filed a petition when 6 trans person could not avail food grains due to the non possession of ration cards. The Patna High
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Nikhil Datar vs. Union of India: A long drawn struggle
Andra Pradesh, Articles, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Case, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Education, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Impact, Issues, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Landmark, Litigation, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, New Delhi, News, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Safe Abortion, Sikkim, States, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, WORKAmendment of (MTP) Act 71 is on its way: The Union Cabinet on 29.01.2020 approved extending the upper limit for permitting abortions from the present 20 weeks to 24 weeks. The Cabinet permitted the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to amend the Medical Termination of
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CLAIMING DIGNITY – USING LAW TO ADVANCE REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH RIGHTS
Access to Contraceptives, Adolescents' Sexual Health and Rights, Andra Pradesh, Articles, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Case, Chhattisgarh, Child Marriage, Delhi, Education, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, HIV & AIDS, Images, Impact, Issues, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Landmark, Litigation, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Maternal Health, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, New Delhi, News, Odisha, Publication, Publication, Punjab, Quality of Care, Rajasthan, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, Sex Selection, Sikkim, States, Sterilisation, Tamil Nadu, Transgender Rights, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, WORK
31.10.2019 – The history of medicine and reproductive health in India is one in which women were merely mute beneficiaries rather than the active agents that they should have been. It is cluttered by scandals involving mass hysterectomies, illegal and unethical
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THE CONDITION OF MOHALLA CLINICS IN DELHI AND THE FACILITIES AVAILABLE TO PREGNANT AND LACTATING MOTHERS
Articles, Case, Delhi, Images, Issues, Maternal Health, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Safe Abortion, States, Update
The Fact-Finding was conducted across 9 Mohalla Clinics and 1 polyclinic on 17th June 2019. 6 interns, in a team of two members each conducted the fact-finding across 9 districts in Delhi. The interns were from different Law Universities. Hence, the
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NON ACCESSIBILITY OF MATERNAL BENEFIT SCHEME IN MANSAROVAR, NEW DELHI
Articles, Case, Consultations, Delhi, Images, Issues, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding, States, Update
On 14.05.19, a team from HRLN visited Mansarovar Park, in New Delhi to assess the
administration of schemes ( JSSK, JSY and PMMVY) and interviewed the pregnant and
lactating women. The purpose of the investigation was to assess the following:
1. To determine when
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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