Reproductive Rights and Access to Contraception in India
New Delhi, Sep 16 2016
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A national alliance of organisations working on maternal health rights today called for setting up of an independent monitoring commission to look at the audits and reports that are commissioned by the government to review its family planning programme.  An oversight body of parliamentarians, women's rights organisations and academicians needs to be constituted immediately, said Jashodhara Dasgupta of HealthWatch Forum U.P, adding that such measures would support Wednesday's landmark Supreme Court order in the case of Devika Biswas vs Union of India and others (Writ petition (Civil) No.95 of 2012), 
that ruled against mass sterilisation camps and called for greater transparency in the family planning programme. Dasgupta said, speaking at a press conference organised in New Delhi today by the National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights (NAMHHR) and HRLN through whom the petition had been filed, activists from across the country and public health experts welcomed the judgement as an important step towards reproductive health justice for women in India. ​  - Read more
DECCAN CHRONICLE
SC asks Centre to shut all sterilisation camps within 3 years

September 14, 2016
The court was dealing with a PIL which had brought to light mismanagement of sterilisation camps which led to the death of several persons
The apex court said that sterilisation surgeries, despite not being complicated, have caused several deaths across the country.                     - Read more
DECCAN HERALD
Apex court urges govt to decide on health policy
​17 September 2016
The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the Centre to decide by December 31 and announce if it would frame a National Health Policy or not.
“We have already expressed our sadness at the fact that the National Health Policy has not yet been finalised despite the passage of more than one-and-half years. We direct the Union of India to take a decision on or before 31st December 2016, on whether it would like to frame a National Health Policy or not,” a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Uday U Lalit said.                                               - Read more
ONE INDIA
Close down family planning sterilisation camps, SC tells government
September 15, 2016
New Delhi, Sep 14: The supreme Court on Wednesday asked the central government to persuade the states to halt the holding of sterilisation camps with well-equipped primary health care centres taking over the role.
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LIVE MINT
Supreme Court tells centre to take call on national health policy
September 14, 2016
SC gave at least 14 other directives to the centre in a case regarding the issue of conducting ethical sterilization    of    men 
and ​women in camps or accredited centres
The Supreme Court says the sterilization programme is not only a public health issue but a national campaign for population control and family planning. 
​The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the centre to take a call on framing a National Health Policy by 31 December.
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