Safai Saathis or waste pickers are the backbone of traditional wa

A significant proportion of the global population is comprised of adolescents and young people, with an estimated 1.2 billion individuals

Mobility is generally defined as movement from one area to another and from one sector to the other for better earnings and employment as well as other purposes.

Decades of campaigning has led to signiicant changes and reform in the rape law.

Persons testing positive for infection by HIV or showing evidence of AIDS provoke revulsion and fear in medical doctors. These reactions stem from the general knowledge that the diagnosis of AIDS is akin to a death sentence and the belief that a positive HIV test is, inevitably.

The Times of India dated 13 January 1994 featured on its front-page news of a tragic event. ‘A sixty-year old advocate... leaped to his death from the eighth floor of the Bombay Hospital and died of multiple injuries... (This followed) the revelation that he was HIV positive ...

Men of the Chakhesang tribe of Nagaland aid their wives during delivery of the newborn. Most men in the picture-postcard village of Chizami in Phek district believe it is shameful to depend on a neighbour's help when such a momentous event is taking place in their family.

Globally, two billion people are engaged in informal work, of whom a disproportionate number - 66 percent of workers - are women.