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Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces

The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.

Manual Scavengers Act: Karnataka HC issues directions over implementation

The court noted that manual scavenging is most inhuman and that it infringes the fundamental rights guaranteed under Article 21

K’taka HC tells state govt to rebuild burnt down shanties to protect right to shelter

The huts of migrant workers were burnt down by miscreants during lockdown and the court held that it was the state’s duty to protect right to shelter

Employer and colleagues beat a man to death for demanding pending salary!

Killed for demanding his due, the man had come to Gurgaon hoping to get a job to support his family.

Irregular pay and exploitative work conditions may worsen: JNUTA

Bleak picture emerges for workers in the near future

Farmers and workers gear up for November 26 protest!

Organisations report that the struggle may intensify and extend to the local village-level in an effort to repeal anti-farmer and anti-workers laws

Govt aims to eliminate manual scavenging by August 2021

With amendments to the Manual Scavenging Act and making mechanised cleaning mandatory, will it help restore dignity of sanitation workers?

Jharkhand Adivasis celebrate Birsa Munda Jayanti on Jharkhand formation day

Celebrating both the creation of Jharkhand state and the birth of Adivasi leader Birsa Munda, state MGNREGA coordinator addresses adivasis gathered at Putki neighbourhood.

Give us vending certificates then hold fresh surveys: FSS

Mumbai’s street vendors state that a new survey without issuing pending certificates would be a violation of their vending rights.

Migrant labourer’s mother kept on holy pedestal, yet migrants and women continue to suffer

Residents of Behala, Kolkata replace conventional idols of deities during Durga Puja with sculptures of a migrating labourer’s family in memory of the plight of migrant workers amidst the Covid-19 lockdwon.

SC quashed Guj government’s anti-worker notification

In a victory for the principle of a dignified wage, the Court quashed the Notification that denied humane working conditions and overtime wages, while stating that it was an affront to the workers Right to Life and the right against forced labour.

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