Safai Saathis or waste pickers are the backbone of traditional wa

There is a growing focus on generating evidence on violence against informal women workers across the world.

From helping women inmates in prenatal and postnatal stages, to vaccination of children and giving them pre-primary education, this is how prison authorities are looking after children who stay with their mothers inside jails.

“Women hold up half the sky”, the Chinese saying goes. But we need to recognize that it is not an equal world for women, globally and in India.