Tag: India

100+ participants learn about surrogacy laws, case studies and key cases in several Asian countries to help improve legal standards in the region.

Three-day training for young lawyers, youth advocates, health professionals and others held through the South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative.

"I see reproductive rights as being at the core of gender equality and human rights, and this really resonates with the Center's mission."

In this op-ed for The Indian Express, the Center’s Brototi Dutta, Advocacy Adviser for Asia, and Gargi Mishra, Research and Advocacy Officer at the Center for Health Equity, Law and Policy at ILS Pune, examine India’s new laws on surrogacy and assisted reproduction technology and how they fail to address crucial aspects, including single persons and […]

Amendment to India’s 1971 law a step forward, but gaps remain.

This Center factsheet, released in September 2022, outlines and analyzes India’s 2021 MTP Amendment Act, which aimed to reform the country’s 50-year-old abortion law, the 1971 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.

Laws include some improvements, but gaps remain.

Report by the Center and partners launched at a virtual event for advocates and stakeholders in India.

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 of Pregnancy Act, 1971, and other laws operate as barriers to accessing safe abortion care. The study and the report […]

The Center for Reproductive Rights Asia team is playing a significant role this month at Safe Abortion Dialogue-Asia, a virtual conference focused on developing strategies to reduce barriers and expand access to safe abortion care in the region.