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HUMAN RIGHTS

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Water Supply

Izzat ka Pani: The story of a Mumbai resident’s long struggle for piped water

February 24, 2022 Qurratul Ain Contractor and Jayant Parashar

A video feature on the decade-long struggle of Abrar Salmani of Bhim Nagar, an informal settlement in Mumbai, to access his right to water.

Zomato delivery partners sitting by a pavement
Economy

Harsh realities of delivery workers: a discussion

October 27, 2021 Radha Puranik

Experts and delivery workers discuss exploitative practices of food delivery apps, abysmal working conditions and distorted wages.

Zomato delivery partners sitting by a pavement
Economy

Delivery workers prefer to work for smaller companies that offer better work conditions

October 18, 2021 Sabah Virani

Delivery workers of big delivery apps in the country make shifts to smaller companies, citing poor work conditions and wages.

woman carries gas cylinder in Mumbai
Economy

The Plight of Gas Cylinder Delivery Workers

October 5, 2021 Radha Puranik

Cylinder delivery workers are subjected to life threatening work conditions and social exclusion with no laws or regulations in place to protect them.

Aman
Civic

Mumbai Buzz: Oxygen plants in limbo | Eastern Expressway shut for maintenance | HC judges made permanent

May 29, 2021 News Desk

Here’s all the news you missed this week.

Society

No income, no food, no government relief: Kamathipura’s sex workers pushed to the brink

July 13, 2020 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

With no income and no food for the past three months, the sex workers of Kamathipura are desperate to go back to work, even if it gets them just a cup of tea and bread!

Health

People in this Mumbai slum barely make it to 40; here’s why

April 24, 2019 Apekshita Varshney

For decades, waste has been Mumbai’s teeming, unsolvable problem. Slums around the city’s dumping ground are now Asia’s largest, exposing ragpickers and the general population to serious health risks. All plans and commitments to waste management, meanwhile, appear figurative.


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