Rights Con 2023 Rights Con 2023 Lighting Talk: We were honored to participate in Rights Con 2023, where we delivered a captivating Lighting Talk on the crucial themes of abortion and privacy, drawing attention to the rights and privacy concerns surrounding this sensitive topic. United Nations CSW 67 We are absolutely thrilled and overjoyed to have […]
Category: Access to Safe Abortion
We are excited to launch the “Pinky Karein Sawaal” song on 28th September 2021, as part of abortion conversations in India. This song is based in Patna in Hindi, about a woman who is asking questions and would love to know more information about her rights. The song launch would be a game, Songbola ( […]
What if abortion is not a public health claim but a privacy claim? THE Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Act, 2021 received Presidential Assent on 25th March 2021. The Act amends the original enactment of 1971 to increase the number of weeks within which a woman can terminate her pregnancy, and provides for certain circumstances in which a pregnancy […]
This year in March, the Indian government passed the amended Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, 2021 in the parliament. The new & amended rules that allow termination of pregnancies even up to 24 weeks of the gestation period stand out in sharp contrast to rules governing abortion in so-called developed countries like – the […]
(Review of a Malayalam movie Kunj Eldho, directed by Mathukkutty, lead actors: Asif Ali and Gopika Udayan.) Kunjeldho is the story of a teenage boy whose only ambition in life is (was) to meet girls and spend time flirting. He is a typical naïve and spoiled child of rich parents and his only responsibility seems […]
Do our abortion laws reflect the realities of the Netflix generation? Science has advanced, people are reaching on Mars, people getting their knowledge out of phones, and Netflix is taking over our sex education, so why do our abortion laws still not acknowledge the young person and teenagers realities? In India, after 50 years of […]
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Ab Aap Safe Hein
Hidden Pockets Collective with a joint effort with Development Consortium launched a campaign in Bihar, ‘Ab Aap Safe Hein’ in 2021, targeting young people as well as healthcare workers, aimed to improve the understanding of clinical and legal aspects of abortion and to empower young people in rural India, by raising awareness of their rights […]
Sara’s is about the life of a happy girl who wants to be a filmmaker. She hated pregnancy since childhood and believes that she does not have the skills to deal with children. But she accidentally gets pregnant and the rest of the film is about how she deals with it in a conservative society. […]
Whenever there is a natural disaster, we tend to start looking at immediate relief work. The life and death situation becomes immediate and we often start reacting to requests. But the sad part of a natural disaster is that our daily bitter truth gets amplified. The marginalised communities, become more marginalised, our failed infrastructures become […]
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