Lessons from India’s sex worker activists on surviving USAID freeze

Gowri Vijayakumar

· Feb 23, 2025 · 09:00 am

SC seeks Centre’s response on plea to allow blood donation by gay men, transgender persons

Scroll Staff

· Aug 02, 2024 · 04:35 pm

In Britain, yoga teachers and nannies look to sex workers in their fight for rights

Beatrice Tridimas, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Apr 08, 2023 · 11:30 pm

Why Indian sex workers dread going to a hospital

Johanna Deeksha

· Dec 21, 2022 · 09:00 am

Police must not abuse sex workers physically or verbally, says Supreme Court

Scroll Staff

· May 25, 2022 · 06:38 pm

Sex workers can get Aadhaar card even without formal proof of residence, Centre tells Supreme Court

Scroll Staff

· Mar 01, 2022 · 01:52 pm

Issue voter IDs and Aadhaar to sex workers, Supreme Court tells states

Scroll Staff

· Dec 15, 2021 · 07:41 pm

Five years on, India’s sex workers are yet to recover from demonetisation’s devastation

Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad

· Nov 27, 2021 · 09:00 am

What happens if caste enters the debate on sex work? These ‘notes in the margins’ ask the question

Manjima Bhattacharjya

· Jul 15, 2021 · 08:30 am

How the opening of the Suez Canal transformed Mumbai – and its sex trade

Scroll Staff

· Mar 30, 2021 · 06:30 am

SC agrees to hear plea against Centre’s rules barring gay, transgender people from donating blood

Scroll Staff

· Mar 05, 2021 · 02:44 pm

How India’s marginalised sex workers have asserted their right to welfare entitlements

Sutapa Majumdar Mona Mishra Misbah Rashid Akhila Sivadas

· Jan 14, 2021 · 09:00 am

Coronavirus: SC directs Centre, states to provide food, monetary assistance to sex workers

Scroll Staff

· Sep 22, 2020 · 05:02 pm

How to read Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ for understanding consent, satisfaction and exploitation

Tamara MacLeod, Aeon

· Sep 19, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Tumblr’s ban on adult content will hurt the sexual subcultures that found space on the platform

Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust, The Conversation

· Dec 10, 2018 · 08:30 pm

The road to success: Understanding sex work on India’s highways is crucial for HIV prevention

Ashok Alexander

· Dec 06, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Kerala flood relief: Sex workers in Maharashtra donate Rs 21,000, will raise more funds

Scroll Staff

· Aug 22, 2018 · 11:23 am

How Conservative Christian women are shaping public attitudes towards sex work

Carly Daniel-Hughes, The Conversation

· Jan 09, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Fighting off political and financial challenges, Mozambique’s sex workers are stopping HIV

Jules Montague, Mosaic

· Aug 20, 2017 · 02:30 pm

In a Delhi red light area, health officials are going door-to-door to detect cases of TB

Menaka Rao

· May 05, 2017 · 02:30 pm