The group, including 20 children and five women, braved heat and storms, and rested in the shade under trees and wherever they could find a quiet corner.

Mohammad Aslam Ansari, 35, along with his pregnant wife Minaz Khartoon, 25, were returning to Sitamarhi district by a Sharmik special train from Surat in Gujarat.

The family was on the way to Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh with other migrant labourers amid the lockdown.

Jyoti Kumari did not think twice before starting her long journey without food or water. --...

Investing in them and their capacity-building will serve as a bulwark for the daily health crises that people face and also the pandemics and epidemics of the future.

A pregnant woman alleges she lost her baby after being denied treatment at two government health centres in Buxar district, Bihar, only because she is Muslim. Her experience is not uncommon.

COVID-19 is intensifying pre-existing inequalities, from health to the economy, and from security to social protection. As ever, women continue to bear the maximum brunt.

Bhojpuri women, mostly from Bahujan communities, have been singing about their husbands in foreign lands for over two centuries now — songs that have fallen on deaf ears of not just people not...

As Singhwahini panchayat's head, Ritu Jaiswal is an exception to the norm, not just because she's a woman.

In a joint statement, the organisations said that the recent rape of an Adivasi woman in Bengaluru was one of many incidents of suffering that workers had endured over the decades.

This guidance note highlights the emerging impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women migrant workers, focusing on the key challenges and risks they face. It makes recommendations in the context of...

The body of the woman and the toddler, who was crying and sucking his mother’s breasts, were found near a railway track in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh, nearly 250km from Bhopal.

Women who make for 85% staff strength of the nation’s health workers, and whom PM Modi has called India’s ‘Corona Warriors’, have been arguably exposed to a greater degree of risk than their male...

​This article is based on the documentation of the issues faced by women farmers across 14 districts of the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra. More than ever, the present pandemic has

From an already low base, women’s employment has fallen further, and a recovery will be difficult

The COVID-19 has led to disproportionate impact on the women workers, particularly women migrant workers.

In the non-farm sector, women are usually located as home-based workers, domestic workers, construction labourers, petty retailers and textile and garment factory workers, beauty, salon and spa...

” We are unable to sell Mahul flowers in the market due to the lockdown. Lockdown has taken our  livelihood away”, said Baijanti Kalo of Bamandagarh village  in Jamankira Block of Sambalpur District...

Female-intensive work in the unorganised sector, performed mostly by migrant women workers, remains unregulated unlike in the organised sector.

The pandemic will drive many women in India into poverty and food insecurity.

10% of the 946 women surveyed skipped one meal a day; 7% skipped two meals a day