-The Hindu Counsel clarifies apex court order does not recognise sex work as a ‘profession’ Tripti Tandon, advocate for the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee and Usha Cooperative, which are parties fighting for the rights of Sex Workers, stated on Thursday that a Supreme Court order on May 19 “does not recognise or have the effect of recognising sex work as a ‘profession’”. Ms. Tandon said the court's order “states that Sex Workers, who...

-TheWire.in The apex court issued these directions in exercise of power under Article 142 of the constitution since the Union government is yet to come up with legislation on this matter. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed that the police should treat Sex Workers with dignity and should not abuse them, acknowledging that the basic protection of human decency and dignity extends to them. It further directed that the media should...

-The Hindu The apex court says police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting Sex Workers In a significant order recognising sex work as a “profession” whose practitioners are entitled to dignity and equal protection under law, the Supreme Court has directed that police should neither interfere nor take criminal action against adult and consenting Sex Workers. “It need not be gainsaid that notwithstanding the profession, every individual in...

In the absence of income or expenditure-based headcount ratio, the growth in the real wages (i.e., nominal wages adjusted against retail inflation) of the manual workers is considered to be a good proxy to assess the trends in poverty. This is because the manual, unskilled/ semi-skilled labourers exist at the bottom of the pyramid or economic hierarchy, and most of them belong to the social categories Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

-The Hindu But they have to get certificate from a gazetted officer of health departments of States or from official with NACO, it says The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Monday informed the Supreme Court that it was willing to issue Aadhaar card to Sex Workers without insisting on proof of residence/identity, provided they got a certificate from a gazetted officer of the health departments of the States or from...