Hengasara Hakkina Sangha (HHS) is a feminist, activist women’s rights organizations based in Bangalore, India and see ourselves as part of the larger women’s movement in India. (Hengasara Hakkina Sangha, when translated into English from the original Kannada, means Women’s Rights Organisation).
The Beginnings
HHS was started as a legal rights education programme in Karnataka for under-privileged, poor, rural women as legal literacy was seen as a necessary step for women’s rights assertion and empowerment. A legal rights program for women in Karnataka was started with the support from Ford Foundation. HHS thus came into existence in 1993 and began work in the year 1994. HHS initially worked with women’s collectives on legal literacy. Gradually HHS work became a rights education program and began working with institutional actors such as police, judiciary, banks and media on gender rights issues along with rural women’s collectives in Karnataka. The accent was given to critically engage with law from a feminist location in all our interventions.
Our Objectives
Specifically, HHS has the following objectives:
- To enable women to be aware of their lives and experiences, aspirations, demands and violations within a rights framework.
- To challenge and transform exploitative, oppressive and discriminatory power structures, systems, attitudes, practices and belief systems towards a just and equal society.
- To enable all women to control and transform their lives.
- To celebrating and affirm women’s wisdom, creativity and contributions to society.
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