Marathwada Mitra Mandal’s Shankarrao Chavan Law College [MMSCLC], Pune is organising an Online One Day National Seminar on Legal Regime relating to Reproductive Rights of Indian Women and Social Reality on 11th December 2021.
About Marathwada Mitra Mandal
'Marathwada Mitra Mandal', the charitable trust was established in 1967 in Pune with the objective of providing accommodation facilities to the students. Being established through an inspiration of socially and educationally charged personalities, it serves with a motto 'Yethe Bahutanche Hit' (Welfare of Masses). At its various educational campuses, excellent facilities of education are provided to more than 12000 students pertaining to Architecture, Management, Law, Commerce, Pharmacy and Engineering etc. Recently, the Marathwada Mitra Mandal's four colleges are accredited with 'A' Grade by NAAC, Bengaluru.
About Shankarrao Chavan Law College
With the objective of nurturing future lawyer with ideals and values required for playing constructive role to create a better world, in 2003, Shankarrao Chavan Law College is established. In an attempt to impart quality legal education, the college organizes wide range of co-curricular activities such as Justice P. B. Sawant National Moot Court Competition, Late Shri Shankarrao Chavan Memorial Elocution Competition etc. The college has also established Centre for Advanced Legal Research & Training and Centre for Academic Research, Publication and E content in Law (CARPEL) for training the students on various legal issues and to inculcate various set of skills among students.
About the Seminar
Reproductive rights can be best explained as the gateway towards the realization of all other human rights. They encompass a spectrum of civil, political, economic and social rights, ranging from the rights to health and life, to the rights to equality and non-discrimination, privacy, information, and to be free from torture or ill-treatment. In other words these rights include access to contraception, the right to a legal and safe abortion, the right to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence, the right to not be subject to harmful practices such as the coerced bearing of children (including with their spouse); and equal entitlement of LGBTQ persons to the same sexual and reproductive health services as all other groups
The recognition of reproductive rights can be found in various international instruments such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). India being a signatory to these instruments, owes an obligation to respect these rights in letter and spirit. Further in recent time we can find various judgments of constitutional courts which have provided the strong foundation for the recognition of reproductive rights of women. A decade ago the Supreme Court in the Suchita Srivastava V. Chandigarh Administration, 2009 (9) UJ 4151, upheld that woman’s right to make reproductive choices is a dimension of personal liberty as understood under Art. 21 of the Constitution of India and refused to recognize any restriction to curtail the right. Recently in Justice K S Puttaswamy v Union of India the Supreme Court has specifically recognised the constitutional right of women to make reproductive choices, as a part of personal liberty under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. This judicial pronouncement as to women’s autonomy to take informed decisions regarding their own bodies, fertility, and reproduction is likely to impose variety of challenges specifically with respect to abortion, surrogacy and involuntary sexual intercourse within the marital relationship. The right to reproductive healthcare is one of the important facet of reproductive rights the enforcement of which is hampered by various issues including maternal mortality and morbidity, unsafe abortion and poor quality of post-abortion care, lack of access to the full range of contraceptive methods and reliance on coercive and substandard female sterilization, child marriage, and lack of information and education on reproductive and sexual health. Further the decriminalization of the same sex relationship is likely to lead demand of reproductive rights by those in such relationship.
In this backdrop, the scrutiny of enforcement of reproductive rights by women in Indian society becomes utmost necessary for the holistic understanding of these rights. In this seminar we expect the brainstorming sessions by various stakeholders such as judges, lawyers, academicians, medical professionals and human rights activists.
Sub-Themes
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Legal response to Marital Rape- Need to rethink
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Reproductive rights and Right to abortion
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Reproductive rights and child marriages
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Reproductive Rights and couples in same sex relationship
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Right to reproductive healthcare - Basic human right
The listed themes are merely indicative; any other topic may be covered within the broader ambit of inclusivity in law.
Call for Papers
The organizers invite original, unpublished research papers for national seminar from students, research scholars, academicians and practicing lawyers on above sub-themes. Authors shall declare that the manuscripts submitted for seminar do not infringe the copyright of any other person. The interested researcher should send an abstract which contain 200 – 250 words accompanied by a brief profile of the author including his email ID, contact number, his research background (if any) and his institutional affiliation to sclcconference@gmail.com . Selected quality papers will be published either in the form of seminar proceedings or book with ISBN number.
Guidelines of Paper Submission
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Font Size-12
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Font- Times New Roman
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Word Limit- minimum of 3000 to maximum of 5000 words
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Language of paper- Papers shall be submitted and presented in English only
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Co-authorship- up to two co-authors is allowed
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Citation method- ILI
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Line spacing- 1.5
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Page alignment- Left-1.5, Right-1, Top-1 and bottom-1
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Note: The organizers have all rights reserved with respect to guidelines of submission and presentation of research paper
Registration
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Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezLgaQGQhrkpCZP9Y1xwktgPoGTt5E8pRwNL4MiRfuxLHtgw/viewform
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No fees for students of SCLC
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Law students and Research Scholar other than of SCLC (only participation) - 100/-
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Law students and Research Scholar other than of SCLC (Research paper presentation) - 300/-
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Academicians, Lawyers and other professionals (only participation) - 300/-
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Academicians, Lawyers and other professionals (Research paper presentation) - 300/-
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Note: - Registration fees includes only participation/paper presentation certificate. The co-authorship up-to two is allowed, however the co-authors are required to register separately with full fees
Payment Details
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Name - MMMS Shankarrao Chavan Law College
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Account Number -50100106697534
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Bank Name - HDFC Bank
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Branch - Mayur Colony, Pune
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IFSC Code - HDFC0000149
Important Dates
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Last Date for Abstract Submission - 22th November, 2021
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Notification of Selection of Abstracts – 24th November, 2021
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Last Date for Registration - 26th November, 2021
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Last Date for Full Paper Submission - 30th December 2021
Contact
For queries, you can contact on 9881712873 / 7030527443
