Box MS-060 Box 4
Contains 18 Results:
Press releases, undated
Handwritten and printed drafts of press statements on Norplant, in Hindi and English.
Promotional material on Norplant, undated
Includes booklets from Ministry of Health and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
A world without women, circa 1979
Article by C Satyamala ans Amrita Chaachi on sex determination.
Banned - Select ('A Drug to alter the sex of the foetus'), December 1992
Publication by Voluntary Health Association of India.
Central Legislation, 1988
Notes on a national level legislation to ban sex-determination tests.
Correspondence, 1988-1991
Regarding Maharashtra Act, mentions efforts towards putting together a central legislation. Includes reports and drafts.
Gujarat Regulation on Pre-Natal Diagnostic Tests Bill, 1991, undated
Includes copy of bill and handwritten reports.
Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (regulation and prevention of mis-use) Bill 1991 -- Affidavits, 1992
Contains information collected by Action India on sex determination clinics.
Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (regulation and prevention of mis-use) Bill 1991 -- Notes, 1991-1992
Handwritten and typed notes, includes recommendations and reports.
Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (regulation and prevention of mis-use) Bill 1991 -- Signatue campaign, 1989
Contains letters and signature campaign from YWCA, Stree Atyachar Virodh Manch, and from activists in Bangladesh.
Maharashtra Act, 1988
Reprint of Maharashtra Act XV of 1988 on regulation of pre-natal diagnostic procedures.
Media clippings, 1980-1994
Newspaper articles on sex determination tests like ultrasound and its use in female foeticide.
Notes, undated
Handwritten notes on aminocentesis, includes list of contacts etc.
Press releases, 1984-1988
Campaign against sex determination by Saheli and Forum.
Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 1994-2002
Includes correspondence, reports and recommendations related to PCPNDT Act.
Promotional material - sex determination tests, 1984-1985
Includes Saheli's criticism of the material.
The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act, 2008
Booklet contains PCPNDT Act with The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Rules of 1996 and short notes. Published by Universal Law Publishing Co. Ltd.
Publicity and outreach material, 2002
Includes pamphlets in English and Hindi by Saheli, Action India, Centre for Women's Development studies, Ministry of Health etc