HUMAN RIGHTS

Manual scavenging is illegal but still goes on. The death of two workers in June, is a stark reminder of the continuing inhuman practice.

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.

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

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

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

Here’s all the news you missed this week.

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!

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.