Monthly Archives: February 2021

Not Right. Not Okay: the implications of conflating sex trafficking and sex work

By Madhurima Sanyal

On September 24, 2020, the Bombay High Court ruled that sex workers have the right to choose their profession. To put this into context, in 2019, a red-light area was raided by the Police in Mumbai where the Police extracted a few sex workers forcefully, charged them under the ITPA and detained them in shelter homes for a year without their consent.

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Leadership of the New Era: From Survivors to Educators

By Somashree Choudhury

A Brief Introduction 

On 18th December, Smart Digital Classes were inaugurated in Balodabazar, Mahasamud and Janjgir Champa districts of Chattisgarh. These classes are specifically targeted to bring back students to school. The reason? The clearly existing digital divide that suspiciously runs along class lines have pushed hundred-thousands of students out of school during lockdown.

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Learning from Leaders

By Somashree Choudhury

What is youth leadership to you?

The answer to this question will yield a wide variety of different responses. We asked this question to survivors of human trafficking- who are now organized into survivor collectives fighting against human trafficking and are leaders in their communities in their own right.

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