The Election Commission has taken a pioneering step by organising a special voter registration camp for sex workers in ...

In a significant move, the West Bengal CEO's office set up camps to assist sex workers in Kolkata's red-light areas with electoral roll enumeration. This initiative addresses concerns of voter ...

EC officials set up SIR camps in Kolkata's Sonagachi to assist sex workers with voter registration and identification challenges.

Hundreds of sex workers from Kolkata's Sonagachi neighborhood are participating in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Concerns arise over potential exclusion due to lack of ...

Kolkata’s Sonagachi area may soon host a special assistance camp for sex workers, as the Election Commission prepares to address unique documentation challenges arising from the ongoing Special ...

KOLKATA: The ripples of unrest raging across Nepal have travelled nearly 800 km south to Kolkata's Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, where Nepalese sex workers are unable to get in touch ...

A senior official in the Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office told PTI that the commission has taken note of the concerns after multiple organisations pointed out that many sex workers at Asia's ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 16 (ANI): Sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are urging the government to include their names in the voter list as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ...

"My husband abandoned me. I came here with my son. He got his voter ID last year. His father is not in the picture. I cannot produce any 2002 papers from my family. What will we do now?" a woman said.

The Election Commission is likely to hold special camps at Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, on December 2 and 3 to address difficulties faced by sex workers during the ongoing Special ...

KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A sex workers' committee meeting is underway on the first floor of a shabby building at the entrance of Sonagachi, South Asia's largest red light district ...

KOLKATA (TrustLaw) - Their eyes lined with black pencil and lips painted red, women in sequined saris line the labyrinth of squalid lanes that make up Sonagachi, one of Asia's largest red light ...