Sonagachi Sex Workers

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  Kolkata's Sex Workers In Crisis Amid Lockdown; Masks, Ration Distributed

  Amid nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus, the sex workers in Sonagachi, a red-light area in North Kolkata, are facing a huge financial crisis with many of them not being able to feed their families.

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  West Bengal's Rehab Scheme For Sex Workers Helped Only 75 In 3 Years

  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.

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  Durga Puja 2017: This Year, Kolkata Sex Workers Have Their Own Durga Idol, Pandal

  Five years after sex workers of Kolkata's Sonagachi organised their first Durga Puja, it's going to be a grand celebration this time. A large pandal has been erected and they have collected about Rs 4 lakh to celebrate the only puja for sex workers in Kolkata.

• Sex Workers In Kolkata's Sonagachi Hit By GST On Sanitary Pads

  Kolkata: The 12 per cent GST on sanitary napkins imposed under the new tax regime has put sex workers of Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red light area, in a spot, threatening to put the clock back when they were averse to using the pads. It was after a sustained awareness campaign about health and hygiene that the sex workers had started using the san...

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  How This Enterprise Helps Former Sex Workers Take Charge Of Their Lives

  Chennai: An Indian quilt and bag company which employs women trapped in the sex trade has appointed two former sex workers to its board, its co-founder said, calling the move a first in the industry. Sarah Lance, who helped to set up Sari Bari a decade ago to provide sex trafficking victims with alternative means of earning a living, said the comp...

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  Sex Workers In Kolkata To Discontinue Durga Puja After 3 Years

  Disgruntled with authorities for denying them a full-scale Durga Puja celebration, sex workers of Sonagachi, considered Asia's largest red-light area, have decided to discontinue the event.

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  India's Red Light Youngsters Go For Gold at International Football Meet

  A team of youngsters, consisting children of sex workers at Sonagachi, Kolkata, are heading in Denmark later this month to take part in the Dana Cup, an international youth tournament

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  AIDS Preventive Medicine Will be Available From December in Kolkata

  One of Asia's largest red light districts, Sonagachi will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers in what will be the first such initiative in the country.

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  Sex Workers Can Rent Community Hall For Durga Puja: Calcutta High Court

  The Calcutta High Court today allowed sex workers of Sonagachi, considered Asia's largest red light area, to take on rent a community hall for organising their Durga Puja.

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  How This Former Sex Worker Transformed Her Life

  "I had no choice but to do this kind of work," says Maiya in a soul stirring video that traces her journey as a sex worker in Kolkata to working as a supervisor in a soap-making company.

• Sex Workers in Kolkata to Launch Drug Awareness Campaign

  Sex workers of Kolkata's Sonagachi, considered Asia's largest red light area, will launch an awareness campaign against drug use among customers.

• Special Advisory for Kolkata Sex Workers to Keep Ebola Away

  Sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata's largest red light area, have been asked not to entertain customers from Africa, who are regular visitors to the place, in the wake of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

• Kolkata: Retired sex workers to get new home with all facilities

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

• This Durga Puja, themes of women empowerment in Kolkata

  Sex workers adorning weapons and ornaments to Goddess Durga idol for the first time at Sonagachi (Red light area) on the occasion of Durga puja, in Kolkata