‘Over 80% Of Nomadic Homes Have No Toilets, 70% None Near Them’

Thane District: With no attention paid to their sanitation needs, India’s nomadic communities are forced to either defecate in the open or struggle for access to …

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Why India’s Nomadic Tribes Must Have Access To Toilets And Dignity

Mumbai: “You are talking about money for ration. Forget hundreds of rupees for food, we don’t have Rs 10 to give to the toilet attendant for …

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Inflation-Hit, Women Demand Better Wages, More Workdays Under Rural Jobs Scheme

New Delhi: As August rains swept Delhi, more than 500 workers, mostly women, gathered around the Jantar Mantar monument to protest delayed wages, reduced workdays and …

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How Tina, A Van Gujjar Trans Woman, Navigates Many Marginal Identities

Haridwar, Uttarakhand: At the wedding of her baji (aunt), Tina was so awestruck by the dark red bridal suit that she was adamant she would wear …

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How Digital Spaces Are Pushing Marginalised Women Campaigners Further Into Shadows

New Delhi: The rights of women from India’s marginalised communities are being disproportionately constrained and eroded in digital civic spaces, says a report by The Bachchao …

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How Punitive Demolition Drives Deepen The Precarity Of Muslim Women

NEW DELHI: On Monday, May 9, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation brought bulldozers and the police to Shaheen Bagh to remove “illegal encroachments”. Residents protested against …

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Livelihoods Lost, Jahangirpuri’s Muslim Women Struggle With Economic & Emotional Precarity

New Delhi: On the morning of April 20, Raheema Begum* watched as her family’s only source of livelihood, a cold drink kiosk, was reduced to rubble …

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Dalit Survivors Of Sexual Violence Deal With Blocks To Justice At Every Step

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Grave Hunger Crisis Stares India’s Most Marginalised: Hunger Watch Report

New Delhi: Two years into the pandemic, approximately more than two-thirds of Indian households surveyed across 14 states reported experiencing some kind of food insecurity, according …

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Why UP’s Crime Records Fail To Report Full Extent Of Crimes Against Dalit Women

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