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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.

MHA directs States and UTs to provide essentials for migrants stranded amid lockdown

The Ministry of Home Affairs has asked states to make necessary arrangements of food and shelter for migrant workers, students and others stranded amid the lockdown

Stay where you are, UP govt tells migrants 

CM asks neighbouring states to ensure migrant workers from UP,  get facilities in situ

Covid-19 Lockdown: Migrant workers begin to leave city in a painfully long walk home

They have lost jobs, homes in the city, and there are no interstate busses or trains to take them back to their villages

Covid-19 stigma: Medical professionals ostracized and evicted from rented homes

Medical health professional all over the country are facing discrimination and exclusion for the fear of spreading Covid-19 among the community

Working People’s Charter demands provisions for the informal sector to fight Covid-19

The group has written to the PM and the Finance Minister asking them to create a Rs.50k crore emergency workers welfare fund

Covid-19: Maha Labour Commissioner forbids organisations from firing, reducing wages of workers

Move in wake of widespread fears as people are forced to work from home, loss of wages for daily wage earners

Death by excreta: The cursed lives of India’s manual scavengers

Deaths of sanitation workers continue even as governments claim (sic) that they have no person involved in manual scavenging

Twitter makes BJP leader eat humble Poha!

Kailash Vijayvargiya trolled after he claims people who eat poha are Bangladeshi

‘Killing Dissent’ – How the government has been silencing opposing ideas and voices

From scare tactics to brute force, the government has done all it can to quell dissenting voices in India

NRC to hit India’s informal labour force

Muslims, women, Dalits and tribals to be the worst affected

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