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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
2004 to promote the use of strategic litigation for achieving women's reproductive rights worldwide. In 2006, it organised the first ever training on reproductive rights
1- for lawyers in India in collaboration with the Human 1- Rights Law Network (HRLN). It was at this meeting that tl the potential for developing constitutional litigation to
address maternal mortality through the use of intern'le tional norms and comparative law was discussed for the h first time. It also inspired the just-published report, d 'Maternal Mortality in India: Using International and ", Constitutional Law to Promote Accountability and .g Change'.
I· The report, which assesses the situation in India and
recommends strategies and laws that can be used to tackle the problem, was shared at the recent meeting, where II it was released. "It (the report) is a tool to establish a