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
My Body My Choice – A Human Rights Perspective of Abortion Law in India
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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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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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Fact Finding Report on the conditions of three Sub Health Centres in Nagaland
Articles, Case, Images, Issues, Maternal Health, Nagaland, Quality of Care, Report, Research and Fact Finding, Uncategorized, Update
Date: 17.06.2019
A team of lawyers and researchers visited a three sub-health centre in the state of Nagaland namely Mima, Khonoma and Kigwema Sub Health Centre. The research aimed at checking the accessibility of health services provided by the various PHC in
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AYUSHMAN BHARAT YOJANA
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Date: 14.06.2019
Report prepared by Niyati Bhardwaj
AYUSHMAN BHARAT YOJANA
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech of 2018, announced the launch of the Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Scheme (AB-NHPS).
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Military spouses face higher perinatal depression risk
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January 14, 2019
Women whose partners are away on military deployment are at greater risk of developing mental illness during the perinatal period, according to a review paper published in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University's Veterans and Families Institute for Military Social Research (VFI)
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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