https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ensuring-Reproductive-Rights-India-0218.jpg In May 2017, the Supreme Court of India denied a medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) to Z., a 35-year old woman from Patna, Bihar living with HIV who became pregnant as a result of rape. Z. was homeless and discovered that she was 17 weeks pregnant and HIV positive when she was admitted into […]
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 […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2011-Update-Maternal-Mortality-in-India-1.gif This report is an update to Maternal Mortality in India: Using International and Constitutional Law to Promote Accountability and Change, published by the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center) in 2008. Since its release, Maternal Mortality in India has been distributed extensively, and has been utilized in the development of several groundbreaking maternal health […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/India_report_cover.jpg The Government of India has a legal obligation to ensure that women do not die or suffer complications as a result of preventable pregnancy-related causes. The staggering scale and continuing occurrence of maternal deaths and morbidity in India reveals the Government’s failure to protect women’s rights and comply with international law. ,As the nation […]
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 […]
In India, poor pregnant women in need of urgent care are often turned away by hospitals and clinics. This is what happened to Fatema, a homeless young woman from New Delhi who suffers from severe anemia and epilepsy. Although her pregnancy was clearly a high risk one, government health workers refused to even register Fatema’s […]