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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.

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

May Day JNU: Pay the workers before you learn leadership from the Ramayana

The JNUSU has demanded that the JNU administration consult the stakeholders regarding academics issues, and provide relief to workers

Migrant labourers want to go home, but what kind of life awaits them?

On International Workers' Day, here's a look into what millions of Indian migrant workers would need in order to live with self-respect and dignity

Migrant worker walks, hitchhikes 1,500 kms from Mumbai to UP, dies

The cause of his death has not been ascertained yet

LNJP Hospital patient alleges he was kept around dead bodies, hospital refutes charge

The patient also alleged abysmal facilities at the hospital

BREAKING: Stranded people including migrant workers permitted inter-state travel amidst Covid-19 lockdown

All states and UTs directed too formulate standard protocols for the process and travelers will be quarantined on arrival

MNREGS numbers double in states after migrant labourers return home

The rural development ministry is focused on individual asset creation to ensure social distancing

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