surrogacy

Mentioned below are some bills in favor of women empowerment, which will become laws when approved by the Parliament.

Part Two of a series analysing the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 analyses the Bill from the perspective of the Commissioning Parents.

Surrogacy has been a topic of intense debate in recent times, with the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 making the news on several occasions. In the first part of a series analysing the bill, Maadhyam looks at the tenets of the bill applicable to the surrogate mother and what it means for women considering surrogacy in the future.

Neha and Rahul were heartbroken to know that Neha could not carry a child in her womb. But commercial surrogacy gave them hope.

The Maharashtra government has become the first one in the country to offer maternity leave to women employees having a child through surrogacy.

The year 2015 has been marked by some precedent-setting legal judgements, particularly those that enforce the constitutional rights of women and girls as individuals, wives, single mothers and survivors of sexual crimes. Here are some of those judgements.