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Sex Workers, NHRC and Pandemic

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Topic:      Adverse effect of NHRC guideline on Sex workers in this Pandemic/ vulnerability of Sex workers in this covid pandemic. C ommercial sex and sex workers in India are guided under the regulation of Immoral Traffic (prevention) act 1956 these days the Advisory released by NHRC is heated debate over the rights of sex workers and immorality of commercial sex. Under the advisory of NHRC, sex workers included in informal sector. This advisory is taken to tackle the effect of pandemic on sex workers and accessibility of benefits given to them by government, but the question arises to recognize commercial sex as a work, this will never help to reduce the human and sex trafficking. Most of the women in the sexual work are not coming voluntary, they forced to do so, forced by relatives and family, forced by vulnerability, forced by society (Non-acceptable in society), and now this advisory as a recognizing sex as a work gives power to these forces and worsen the situat...

Social Inequality in Pandemic

  TOPIC:        INEQUALITY IN COVID PANDEMIC AND INEQUAL VACCINATION POLICY.   Abstract India with the population of nearly 1.4 Billion and rich with diversity at each level in society from economical to cultural, it is very important to regulate and impose policies to tackle the covid pandemic with effective and inclusive way. Covid pandemic has very adverse impact on not only in India but all over the world but India is the nation where lots of challenges already in society, division of society on the basis of power and authority, class and caste division, communalism, gender division and elitism etc. These all-sociocultural perspectives of social exclusion widen the gaps of inequality in this pandemic and creates big problem to tackle the pandemic in effective manner. For example: Those who has power and reach in authority get vaccinated early, village women faces problem to get vaccine because of gender prejudice of purdah system, poor...