Assam

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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

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    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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Guwahati High Court: Baksa district to get blood bank

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Date: 21.05.2019 Baksa District will finally get blood bank thanks to a PIL filed by a Guwahati High Court Advocate Alin Mahanta with support from Human rights law network (HRLN).  Guwahati High court on Tuesday directed the state government to run a blood ....
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Report on ‘Five-Day National Level Workshop on Contemporary Developments in the law relating to Violence and Discrimination against Women’ held from 19th to 23rd June 2018 in Goa

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Five-day National level Workshop on contemporary developments in the law relating to violence and discrimination against women was organized by Human Rights Law Network and the Centre for Constitutional Rights in collaboration with various other organizations from across the country. It was held at St. Joseph Vaz ....
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The Two-Child Norm: More Anti-Autonomy than Antidote

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A 1980s Indian Stamp stating 'a small family is a happy family'   Zahra Andalucia Wynne – Since 1951, India has seen its population almost quadruple from 360 million to 1.2 billion people, making it the ....
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