India Pushed to Prioritize Women’s Health https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/India-HP.jpg Late last week, India came under pressure during its review before the U.N. Human Rights Council for continually failing to make the health of women and girls a priority. The Council, a body of countries that peer-review other countries’ human rights records, specifically pointed to India having the […]
In India last month, the Division Bench of Patna with the State High Court of Bihar (High Court) handed down an order holding the state responsible for failing to protect, respect, and fulfill the rights of pregnant women. The panel is requiring the government to account for nearly $680 million from a national program called […]
On February 6, judges declared that the state of Madhya Pradesh had violated a woman’s “fundamental right to live” when the government failed to provide proper prenatal care and maternal health services in an appropriate and timely manner. The public interest case, Sandesh Bansal v. Union of India , sought to hold the state of […]
While human rights bodies and governments around the world have recognized maternal mortality as a human rights concern, the Indian Government has continued to neglect the specific health needs and human rights of pregnant women by failing to implement and monitor maternal health policies and programs—leading the country to persist in accounting for the highest […]
CHARM v. State of Bihar and Others is a public interest litigation petition filed in March 2011 by the Center’s partner in India, Human Rights Law Network. It seeks legal accountability from the state government of Bihar for its failure to provide essential maternal health care, including safe abortion services, in public health facilities, leading […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/lactating_wmn.jpg For the second time in less than a year, the Delhi High Court in India has ordered the local state government to ensure that every pregnant woman has access to quality maternity care. Highlighting the government’s failure to successfully implement its public health schemes last month, the court urged the government of Delhi to […]
On June 4, 2010, during the 14th session of the Human Rights Council, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover, presented reports on Poland and India. The report called on both countries to improve the situation for sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Center proactively participated in the preparation […]
By Ximena Andión Ibañez, International Advocacy Director https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/mm_stats.jpg An article in the recent Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, announced a global decrease in maternal deaths from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The Center welcomes this research and other academic studies that seek to measure progress in the reduction of maternal mortality, but […]
April 11 is National Safe Motherhood Day in India. On this day, the Center for Reproductive Rights calls on India to take urgent measures to reduce the country’s staggering number of maternal deaths and injuries. Over 100,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes each year in India. For every woman who dies, some 30-50 women develop […]