
Amicus Brief on Access to Contraception in India
In Spring 2014, the International Human Rights Clinic prepared an amicus brief for the Center for Reproductive Rights in support of a public interest litigation case initiated in India. The case, filed by the Human Rights Network in the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, calls on the government to protect women’s reproductive health by providing access to a full range of contraceptive methods, information, and services. The amicus brief argued, on the basis of human rights law, that women face serious barriers due to flawed state policies and the failure of the state government to implement national-level policy guarantees.