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 | This Library in Lucknow will bring the joy of reading to children of female sex workers. Here's howAn initiative by Aazaadi Foundation International, this library is expected to come up by the end of November 2020. They have already crowdsourced many books for it. This is their inspiring story | |
 | India could avoid 72 per cent of COVID-19 cases after lockdown by closing red light areas: Yale and Harvard studyIndia can add 17 days of additional delay to the peak increasing hard-earned gains from the lockdown. Closing red light areas could reduce COVID-19 deaths by 63 per cent | |
 | Increase in online child sexual abuse due to pandemic, parents asked to track children's internet usageA report released by Europol, stated that there is an increase of online activity by those who are seeking child abuse material | |
 | How St Francis College's street play group Bedaari is talking about sexism, body shamingEvery actor on the team knows every dialogue and not just their own, so that anyone can step in for another in case someone forgets the dialogue. Bedaari is an Urdu word which means 'act of awareness' | |
 | Modi does not have the guts to shut JNU down: Madhu KishwarIndira Gandhi had the guts to shut down JNU when they went berserk. Modi does not have the guts to do that. She managed the political narrative very effectively, says the JNU alumnus | |
 | Transgender writer A Revathi's name next to Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison on Columbia University wallSeveral male writers' names are etched on the wall, two days ago, a banner featuring eight women writers' names went up, A Revathi was one of them
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 | Meet Rescue Foundation's Triveni Acharya, who has helped prevent over 5K girls from being traffickedRescue Foundation also helps rehabilitate the survivors through health checks, counseling and legal aid. They also provide them with proper nutrition and run age verification tests | |
 | Forced into prostitution by family, Chennai seventh grader complained to teachers - who ignored herPolice said that the girl had been undergoing harassment for several months and the incident came to light when she recently shared her turmoil with a neighbour | |
 | Meet Daniel Mendonca, the intersex social worker who campaigned for the first gender-neutral toilet in an Indian collegeAn intersex person, Daniel is now a social worker, working towards the upliftment of the LGBTQIA+ community. Daniel was in Chennai as a TED speaker at GLIM | |
 | Nobody’s children: Why Seema Waghmode is educating kids born to sex workers in MaharashtraSeema Waghmode is a woman from Pune who has been working with Commercial Sex Workers and their children since 1993 | |
 | Five reasons why the LGBTQIA+ community finds the Transgender Bill 2018 offensive and undemocraticThe bill also criminalises begging and "whoever compels or entices a transgender person to indulge in the act of begging" | |
 | How Kolkata NGO Sanlaap is ensuring girls saved from prostitution are rehabilitated with great jobsThis Kolkata NGO has rescued and rehabilitated over 10,000 girls from at-risk situations, ensuring they all have good jobs and a place to call their own | |
 | This Karachi campaign run by university students helps trans persons live a dignified lifeActcept was started in January 2018 by eight university students and a faculty from a leading business institution in Karachi, Pakistan | |
 | Chennai start-up PeriFerry helps transgenders find jobs in inclusive companiesNeelam Jain’s social start-up PeriFerry is helping transgenders get normal, everyday jobs through training and counselling | |
 | Andhra Pradesh shocker: Mothers of this village are selling their daughters into prostitutionCaught between decades of drought and the ban on arrack, an ST community of traditional liquor brewers in Anantapur district has been forced to sell its women into prostitution to survive |
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