The notion of the poor as “encroachers” and “illegal” residents further discourage state interventions as they become dispensable.

"Even though rising education levels have been seen among females, there aren’t enough good jobs for them," an expert noted.

The court observed that people who lost their lives were not given air purifier gas masks and other safety equipment.

About 1,500 sex workers are affected due to barricades in the Ganga-Jamuna red light area over "illegal sex trade" concerns.

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Custodial torture has continued in a culture of impunity, with critics and people from marginalized backgrounds bearing the brunt.

Refugees living in a camp at New Delhi’s Madanpur Khader area said a makeshift mosque at their camp was also demolished.

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The demolition drive began in Faridabad this week -- rendering more than one lakh people homeless without government rehabilitation.

Sex worker organizations argue the proposed legislation conflates trafficking and sex work.

"By February 2016, the attacker had compromised not just [Surendra] Gadling's computer, but also the email accounts of multiple defendants in the Bhima Koregaon case," Arsenal said.

Swami had previously challenged in the Bombay High Court a provision of the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) dealing with grant of bail.

The court was ruling in a case where the convicted person remained in jail for 18 months longer than his sentence.

The court refused to allow any coercive action against two Telugu news channels noting the FIRs were a way to “muzzle media freedom.”

The court responded to a petition noting the lack of ration cards and other civic entitlements prevent sex workers in Panpatty from availing government aid.

The court responded to a petition that said the pandemic has had a “discriminatory impact on migrant children and has aggravated their vulnerabilities."

The photographer says he wanted to "humanize" the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime, but many call his work an affront to the dead.