Child Rights Centre, CNLU organizes a webinar on “Reproductive Choice of Women: A Fundamental Right” on 27th November 2021 sponsored by NCW, New Delhi.
About Chanakya National Law University (CNLU)
Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) is a public law school and a National law University in Patna, Bihar, India. It was established in 2006 by the Government of Bihar (Bihar Act 24 of 2006) as a public university dedicated to the field of legal education. The Chief Justice of Patna High Court is the ex officio chancellor of the university. It is one of the autonomous law schools in India. The campus is located right near the heart of the city in the Mithapur area and has an area of approximately 18 Acres.
The university came into being on 15th August 2006 under the guidance of its vice-chancellor/pro-chancellor, Prof. Dr. A. Lakshminath, former dean and registrar, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, HRD Principal Secretary Madan Mohan Jha, a 1977 batch IAS and Registrar(I/C) Vijay Kumar Himanshu Dy. Director of Higher education, HRD, Govt. Of Bihar. CNLU was established under the Chanakya National Law University Act, 2006 (Bihar Act No. 24 of 2006) and included in sections 2(f) & 12(B) of the U.G.C. Act, 1956.
CNLU offers a one-year post-graduate LL.M program. Admission to the total 40 seats for the LL.M course is provided through the Entrance Test conducted by the university.
About the Webinar
Bihar is a state which is the least developed as compared to other states of India. The condition of women in India is also not up to the mark since most of the population of Bihar population are belonging to Villages. If we see the health profile of this state, then we come to know that Bihar has the lowest health profile. There are various reasons behind it and pregnancy is also one of the reasons behind it. If we talk about the rights of women in the context of pregnancy in India there is no appropriate law for it. In about 70 years of Independence of India, women are working in many sectors parallel to the men. In the context of Reproductive Rights, judgments of Puttaswamy, recognize the constitutional right of the women which give freedom to make their reproductive choices. It is covered under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution (Justice K S Puttaswamy v Union of India 2012a: para 72, 2012b: para 46, 2012c: para 38). The bench also reiterated the position adopted by a three-judge bench in Suchita Srivastava v Chandigarh Administration (2009), which held that reproductive rights include a woman’s entitlement to carry a pregnancy to its full term, to give birth, and to subsequently raise children; and that these rights form part of a woman’s right to privacy, dignity, and bodily integrity. But things are very much different in reality. If we talk about life expectancy, it is higher in developed countries as compared to India. In India, we can see that the expectancy of females is not the same as the women of developed countries which indicate the poor health of women in India. This poor health might be due to different reasons and reproductive choice is one of them. One big issue of Indian society is that the choice of getting a son and these things are governed by the elder of the family. Such practices of getting a son as a baby are very common in northern India especially in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. This proposed webinar will focus on the condition of women particularly in the context of their rights in reproductive choice in different districts of Bihar.
Time & Date
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01:00 PM to 04:00 PM
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27th November 2021
Registration
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddYjlQ19pzKvmGZmqzcuEiAH424CZgeEQKjKROygV4K4VF6Q/viewform
Speaker & Topic Details
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Professor Bhavna Verma: Professor, Department of Social Work, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh – Social Impact of COVID-19 on Reproductive Health of Women and Adolescents
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Dr. Padmini Ravindranath: Associate Professor, Department of Economics (MMV), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh – The Socio-Economic Dimensions of Women’s Reproductive Health: Issues and Implications
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Mrs. Sugandha Sinha: Assistant Professor of Law, Chanakya National Law University, Mithapur, Patna, Bihar – Legal Aspects Reproductive Choice of Women: Components, Features and Gaps
Contact
Child Rights Centre, Chanakya National Law University, Nyaya Nagar, Mithapur, Patna-800001, Bihar
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://www.crccnlu.org/
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