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As a @PARInetwork fellow I have an amazing opportunity to be part of a nationwide reporting project on young girls & women in rural India, their reproductive choices & agency. The first of many despatches. https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/end-of-bother---neha-gets-a-nasbandi/

'End of bother' – Neha gets a nasbandi

A ‘nasbandi day’ has replaced sterilisation camps after a 2016 SC order, but it's still mainly women who undergo surgeries – and many in UP do so without any other choice of modern contraception...

https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/end-of-bother---neha-gets-a-nasbandi/

PARI's nationwide series on reproductive rights for women & adolescent girls opened with this stunningly detailed piece from @kavithamurali on Koovalapuram's curious guesthouse. @PARInetwork 2/n #threadstories https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/koovalapurams-curious-guesthouse/

Koovalapuram's curious guesthouse

In Koovalapuram and four other villages of Madurai district, menstruating women continue to be isolated in 'guesthouses'. No one challenges the discrimination, fearing the wrath of the gods and humans

https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/koovalapurams-curious-guesthouse/

From Bastar, Priti Davis's story of a well-equipped PHC, inaccessible for Adivasi women like Kamala. They are given 5 pills & sent away when they come looking to abort a pregnancy. https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/they-are-just-given-a-pill-and-sent-away/ 3/n #thread

'They are just given a pill and sent away'

The well-equipped primary health centres in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district remain out of reach for many Adivasi women, who turn to unqualified practitioners for potentially dangerous abortions...

https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/they-are-just-given-a-pill-and-sent-away/

Upping this #thread of reportage on reproductive rights for @PARInetwork conversations about equity, health justice even more imp now. @amrutabyatnal on the one man who agreed to a vasectomy in a village in Bihar's Araria district. 4/n https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/last-year-only-one-man-agreed-to-a-vasectomy/

'Last year, only one man agreed to a vasectomy'

'Male engagement' in family planning is a buzzword, but the Vikas Mitras and ASHA workers of Bihar report little success in convincing men to undergo sterilisation, and contraception continues to be...

https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/last-year-only-one-man-agreed-to-a-vasectomy/

A woman is nothing more than cattle: from Harsana Kalan self and @sanskrititalwar report on choices curtailed-from education, mobility, clothes, time and obviously reproductive choices. 5/n Follow this thread of nationwide reportage from @PARInetwork https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/for-that-grandson-we-had-four-children/

'For that grandson, we had four children'

The women of Harsana Kalan village in Haryana, around 40 kilometres from Delhi, describe their struggles to achieve some control over their own lives and reproductive choices in the face of male...

https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/for-that-grandson-we-had-four-children/

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