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Every Wave Has a Memory: Women, Waters and the Promise of November 5

When the women of the sea rise, the tides will rise with them to recognise and honour the daughters of the oceans. On November 5 this year, fisherwomen across...

Migrants wanting to return home fleeced by Centre and states

Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka shown to charge exoribitant fares for train and bus tickets

Aarogya Setu app in hot water due to MHA’s order of mandatory downloads

45 organisations, 100 individuals send joint representation to PMO highlighting key privacy concerns

Joint memorandum of organizations pens letter to PM Modi and Railway Minister

The organizations have asked that the Centre waive off train and bus ticket charges for all migrant travellers

Christian group writes to PM asking for nationwide social-security safety net

Group makes a case for universal health insurance and stronger health infrastructure

Sonia Gandhi’s quiet empathy shuts down Modi regime’s loud theatrics, prompts action

Almost derailed by Sonia Gandhi’s offer to pay rail fare for migrant labourers, Railway ministry says it will foot 85% of the bill. Why not 100%?

Special trains, buses for migrants cause registration rush, give no time to pack

Migrants are being charged thrice the price for bus tickets to go back home

Why should India’s migrant labour pay for their return home

The  MHA circular which details the conditions of the third phase...

Center’s inefficiency made migrants suffer:  Jharkhand Nagrik Prayas

It asks why the Centre put all the responsibility of ensuring the safe return of the migrants on the States

Lockdown 2020’s impact on migrant fishworkers will last longer than the season did

Andhra Pradesh’s fishworkers stranded in Gujarat reach home, another dies in Maharashtra. 

1.6 billion informal economy workers significantly impacted by lockdown measures: ILO

UN labour agency calls Covid-19 pandemic worst global crisis since the Second World War

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