KOLKATA, INDIA—In recent years, public health officials, social workers, and politicians swarmed Kolkata’s red-light areas, advocating safe sex, offering medical services, and distributing condoms.

Bhai Dooj is a festival symbolizing the love of a brother-sister, which traditionally marks the bond between the siblings. Every year Bhai Dooj is celebrated in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red-light area by ...

“Only rights can stop the wrong,” reads a poster inside the community centre at the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC) office in Sonagachi, Kolkata, West Bengal’s capital. The poster dates back ...

In the labyrinth of Sonagachi, Asia’s largest red-light district in north Kolkata where shadows often speak louder than light, a new story is being written this Durga Puja—by the children of sex ...

Amid the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area, one of the largest red light districts in Asia, held a preliminary meeting among themselves to know ...

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) ...

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 ...

There are a total of 12,000 sex workers at West Bengal's Sonagachi brothel Sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area are urging the government to include their names in the voter list as the Special ...

Kolkata, Mar 21 (ANI): The sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi lack protested in support of their demand for voting rights, employment opportunities and the right to a dignified life. Elections to the ...

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 ...

One of the largest red-light areas in Kolkata’s Sonagachi, with over 12,000 sex workers, celebrates the 13th edition of their Durga Pujas. Started in 2013, the women of the area erupted in joy as MLA ...

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 ...