The Center’s Work in India
Since the launch of the report Women of the World South Asia (2004), the Center has engaged in sustained efforts to improve access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as human rights in [...]
In India, Center Partners with Law School to Offer Reproductive Law and Justice Clinic
Members of the Center's Asia team are among the instructors at this pilot program at Jindal Global Law School.
Safe Abortion Through Medical Abortion and Self-Management in Select Asian Countries
Published collaboratively by Center for Reproductive Rights and South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative (SARJAI), this paper outlines the existing public health standards and the current human rights standards on abortion including medical and self-managed abortions.
Abortion in India: Report Reveals Widespread Legal Barriers and Recommends Ways to Improve Access
Report by the Center and partners launched at a virtual event for advocates and stakeholders in India.
Legal Barriers to Accessing Safe Abortion Services in India: A Fact-Finding Study
Through a field-based study in four states--Delhi, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu--the "Legal Barriers to Accessing Safe Abortion Services in India: A Fact-Finding Study" aims to understand and document the way in which the Indian Medical Termination [...]
Statement on India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy Amendment
This week, India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2020 (‘MTP Bill’) was introduced and passed by the Upper House of the Parliament. The Bill amends the 50-year-old MTP Act, 1971, which sets the conditions, [...]
India Passes Abortion Reform but Fails to Undo Barriers to Access
This week, the Parliament of India passed an amendment to India’s 50-year-old abortion law that fails to remove barriers to access and instead creates new ones. Following Presidential assent, per procedure, the amendment will become law. While [...]
India’s Proposed Abortion “Reform” Fails to Undo Barriers to Access
An amendment to India’s 50-year-old abortion law, proposed as “reform,” fails to remove barriers to access and instead creates new ones. The amendment entrenches a harmful policy requiring women to obtain authorization by a medical practitioner for all abortion [...]
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April COVID-19 Landscape: SRHR and Gendered Issues in Asia
Newsletter of the April 2020 updates regarding COVID-19’s effects on SRH services and gender issues throughout the Asia-Pacific region, more specifically: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Cambodia, and the Philippines. The Nepal RHRWG, [...]
Securing Reproductive Justice in India: A Casebook
Securing Reproductive Justice in India: A Casebook brings together judgements and orders by the Indian Supreme Court and High Courts across twelve reproductive justice issues. In India, courts have been at the forefront of recognizing and [...]
It’s time to end judicial authorization for abortion in India
It’s time to end judicial authorization for abortion in India Meera* was only 10 years old when she became pregnant after being raped. Meera did not know she was pregnant, and her family only realized [...]
Fact Sheet: Independent Thought V. India
On October 11, 2017, the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark judgment recognizing every girl’s right to bodily integrity, and penalizing rape within child marriage. In Independent Thought v. Union of India and Another, [...]
Ensuring Reproductive Rights: Reform to Address Women’s and Girls’ Need for Abortion After 20 Weeks in India
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. [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
