The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed states and Union Territories to provide dry ration to all sex workers on the basis of the data available with the National AIDS Control Organisation (Naco) and di...

A sex worker in her early 20s is stuck in the city while her two-year-old daughter is in South 24-Parganas with her grandmother.The woman hasn’t been able to go home and meet her daughter for three ...

Sex workers of Sonagachhi now have a puja to call their own.Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, an organisation that works for the rights of the 65,000 registered sex workers in the state, has been org...

The question of the nation-state, and who belongs, and more importantly, how, has made a resurgence across the globe. The recent three-prong legal apparatus initiated by the government of India — th...

An advocate and social worker of Silchar in Assam’s Barak Valley, Tuhina Sarma, has taken up the cause of over 200 sex workers of Silchar who could not apply for inclusion in the National Register o...

India can add 17 days of additional delay to reaching the peak of novel coronavirus cases, and prevent 72 per cent of projected new cases by closing down its red light areas till a Covid-19 vaccine is...

Jhoraphul is Bengali for flowers that have fallen off a tree, from grace, a fair distance away from legitimacy. Roopkatha means fairy tale. The flier for the play, Jhoraphuler Roopkatha, says, “A ta...

Members of India’s gay, lesbian and transgender communities and sex workers joined students and lawyers in New Delhi on Friday to signal what they said was widespread anger against the new citizensh...

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Some years ago, I had attended a district-level meeting of government officials and NGO functionaries in connection with the anti-trafficking work of an international welfare organization in an area k...