KOLKATA, INDIA—In recent years, public health officials, social workers, and politicians swarmed Kolkata’s red-light areas, advocating safe sex, offering medical services, and distributing condoms.

The sex workers of Sonagachi, Kolkata’s largest red-light district, have decided not to provide soil for Durga idols this year, marking a protest against the ongoing violence and injustice faced by ...

In Chiang Mai, they mesmerised us with their handicrafts. In Tokyo, we gorged on delectable doner kebabs. In London, we bought posters. And in Berlin, we fell in love with the fresh tiramisu the old ...

In the labyrinth of Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red-light district in north Kolkata where shadows often speak louder than light, a new story is being written this Durga Puja—by the children of sex ...

Amid the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area, one of the largest red light districts in Asia, held a preliminary meeting among themselves to know ...

“Only rights can stop the wrong,” reads a poster inside the community centre at the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) office in Sonagachi, Kolkata, West Bengal’s capital. The poster dates back ...

Kolkata, Mar 21 (ANI): The sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi lack protested in support of their demand for voting rights, employment opportunities and the right to a dignified life. Elections to the ...

There are a total of 12,000 sex workers at West Bengal's Sonagachi brothel Sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are urging the government to include their names in the voter list as the Special ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 18 (ANI): Followed by a gap of two years during which the COVID-19 pandemic marred festive celebrations, the Durbar Mahila Coordination Committee, the largest ...

The Election Commission has taken a pioneering step by organising a special voter registration camp for sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi, addressing their concerns over documentation and voting ...