Indian LGBT+ group launches appeal for sex workers in coronavirus lockdown
2020-03-28
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MUMBAI, March 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An LGBT+ rights group launched a fundraising appeal on Thursday for Mumbai sex workers whose income has been hit by coronavirus, saying it wanted to help other Indians who faced prejudice.
The Jimme Foundation stepped in after a distress call from a charity helping sex workers in the western Indian city, many of them single mothers struggling t .....
Coronavirus in Mumbai: Sex workers stare at starvation
2020-03-24
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Commercial sex workers in the city are hard-hit, first by the outbreak of coronavirus and secondly, by the virtual lockdown in place.
Faced with the prospect of disease and starvation, the sex workers say, if they could choose, it would be the latter. Business has come to a virtual standstill. .....