Our Activities in Assam
Minuara Begum case
Assam, Report
The case of Minuara Begum comes to show the fatal consequences of not providing adequate health facilities for pregnant women. Her right to health was grossly violated leading to her death. Minuwara’s twin babies died after three days of her death. She lost her life to Post-Partum
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Situational Analysis of Child Marriages in Assam
Assam, Child Marriage, Research and Fact Finding
The issue of child marriage is one of the emerging concerns among the developing countries. According to the 2001 census there are 1.5 million girls, in India, under the age of 15 already married.
Ignorance, illiteracy, poor health, economic and social backwardness, social practices and
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Assessment of Implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojna
Assam, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding
Maternal death is one of the biggest issues of concern in India. To combat the increasing maternal mortality rate (MMR), and to provide basic primary health care delivery system in rural areas, Government of India (GOI) introduced National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in 2005 which is now
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Mother Forced to sell her baby – Chirang
Assam, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding
Even though Indian government has adopted schemes and program providing safe motherhood period to women but there is huge gap in the implementation of the schemes. One such instance we witness where a women was compelled to sell off her new born baby in order to pay her
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Non implementation of IPHS, JSB Hospital
Assam, Maternal Health, Research and Fact Finding
The Indian Constitution provides right to health as one of the fundamental rights in corollary to right to life. Yet people are deprived of the basic health services. This leads to the violations for their fundamental rights, non implementation of Supreme Court orders on maternal health and provisions of
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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