Sex Worker Rehabilitation

The centre today informed the Supreme Court that it is bringing a bill in Parliament during the ongoing winter session to curb trafficking and rehabilitation of sex workers in the country.

Some 200 sex workers in Delhi are being trained to make diyas, candles and incense sticks to make them self-reliant and move away from sex trade.

Only 75 sex workers have benefitted from the West Bengal Government's Muktir Alo ('light of freedom') scheme since its inception in 2016, an RTI query by a Kolkata advocate has revealed.

Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chief Swati Maliwal today lamented that no meeting of state- level coordination committee, set up to combat trafficking and rehabilitate sex workers, has been convened in the last two months and asked the AAP government to expedite implementation of the decisions taken earlier.

Dutch activist Saskia Wieringa, known for her work on women's same-sex relations and women's empowerment, today described the state of widows and sex workers in India as "problematic".

Eleven children, who are looked after by the NGO Kranti are battling discrimination and eviction from the housing society they live in. Kranti works on rehabilitating children of sex workers but they have to leave their home of three years by June 10.

Retired sex workers from Asia's largest red-light district of Kolkata's Sonagachi would soon be rehabilitated in a new home.

At a time when education is becoming big business, here's an example of a university that believes in taking learning to the masses and not differentiating between its students. In a bid to rehabilitate and empower marginalised sections of society like sex workers and transgenders, the Nashik-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YC...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday set up a panel to conduct a survey of sex workers and rehabilitate them. A bench comprising of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra said the panel will be headed by senior counsel Pradeep Ghosh and Jayant Bhushan. It will also include three NGOs engaged in helping sex workers.

The centre today informed the Supreme Court that it is bringing a bill in Parliament during the ongoing winter session to curb trafficking and rehabilitation of sex workers in the country.

Some 200 sex workers in Delhi are being trained to make diyas, candles and incense sticks to make them self-reliant and move away from sex trade.

Only 75 sex workers have benefitted from the West Bengal Government's Muktir Alo ('light of freedom') scheme since its inception in 2016, an RTI query by a Kolkata advocate has revealed.

Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chief Swati Maliwal today lamented that no meeting of state- level coordination committee, set up to combat trafficking and rehabilitate sex workers, has been convened in the last two months and asked the AAP government to expedite implementation of the decisions taken earlier.

Dutch activist Saskia Wieringa, known for her work on women's same-sex relations and women's empowerment, today described the state of widows and sex workers in India as "problematic".

Eleven children, who are looked after by the NGO Kranti are battling discrimination and eviction from the housing society they live in. Kranti works on rehabilitating children of sex workers but they have to leave their home of three years by June 10.

Retired sex workers from Asia's largest red-light district of Kolkata's Sonagachi would soon be rehabilitated in a new home.

At a time when education is becoming big business, here's an example of a university that believes in taking learning to the masses and not differentiating between its students. In a bid to rehabilitate and empower marginalised sections of society like sex workers and transgenders, the Nashik-based Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YC...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday set up a panel to conduct a survey of sex workers and rehabilitate them. A bench comprising of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra said the panel will be headed by senior counsel Pradeep Ghosh and Jayant Bhushan. It will also include three NGOs engaged in helping sex workers.