Odisha

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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 on Non-Functioning of Blood bank in Balikuda CHC, Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha

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      Date: 17.06.2019 A team of lawyers and researchers visited Balikuda, in Jagatsinghapur district, Odisha to gather information about causes of death of the woman; with a view to protect and enforce the basic, fundamental and human right to life under Article 21 ....
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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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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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Modi’s cash transfer scheme for pregnant women shortsighted, healthcare quality needs attention first

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By Maya Palit On social media on 1 January, I came across many quips about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s New Year’s Eve speech. “Judging from the speech, the happiest person in the country should be a 65-year-old pregnant farmer,” went one. These were, of course, prompted by Modi’s promise to introduce a ....
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