Community pressure moves authorities in Karnataka to pay our doctors!

Two e-commerce websites had ‘fake hymen pills’ advertised for sale – propounding damaging and patriarchal notions about virginity trumping women’s health.

 We quickly undertook a campaign to get the websites to take the product down through Twitter storms, a petition with over 1000 signatures and calls we made to them. Both websites removed the product within a couple of hours of this campaign, and one even assured us they would take action. 

This collective tech-based mobilisation was an accurate step in getting these companies to attend to the issue and unlist a humiliating product