The clinic was inaugurated on Sunday. It has been started in a part of a non-functional school by some civil society groups.
The process through which ordinary helpless women and children are drawn into this horrendous organized crime world-over, more prominently in poor countries like India, appears to have been lost sight of while creating an...
While voluntary sex work is legal, running a brothel is illegal in India, as per existing laws covering sex work and human trafficking.
The court noted that the prosecution's case had 'material omissions' and 'missing links' in the chain of circumstances. The verdict read that the state has failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the accused Afsana or...
What is International Sex Workers' Day and what does it signify?
The apex court was hearing a plea that has raised the problems faced by sex workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The plea has highlighted the destitution faced by sex workers on account of COVID-19 and sought relief...
A short film that chronicles Calcutta’s rapid transformation into a megalopolis after colonisation, through the unique lens of sex work
Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story ‘Das Rupay’ is the tale of a 15-year-old pushed into the flesh trade by her mother. In his early days in Mumbai, Manto lived in a chawl near Kamathipura, editing a film magazine called...
For nearly four decades, Priti Patkar has been working with trafficked women in the sex trade and their children in Mumbai’s red-light area, Kamathipura.
