India

GenderIT is accepting pitches from India around gendered disinformation and how it impacts people living with intersecting vulnerable identities. Deadline to submit is Thursday, April 24, 2025.

This guide offers practical suggestions for victim-survivors of image-based abuse, especially those living in the global majority world, to remove the violative content while safeguarding their privacy and identity online. It may also be useful for those who support or accompany victim-survivors. This guide contains two parts.

This guide offers practical suggestions for victim-survivors of image-based abuse, especially those living in the global majority world, to remove the violative content while safeguarding their privacy and identity online. It may also be useful for those who support or accompany victim-survivors. This guide contains two parts.

While digital payments is transforming shopping experience for people in India, the overemphasis on digitisation without addressing the gaps in technological access is creating challenges for those who lack necessary skills. Women street vendors say that they either don't have the skills or technology to access payments made to them, or they don't trust the platforms with their hard earned…

While the move to online platforms for domestic work in India has given a sense of security and identity in some cases to the workers, the commodification of care under online platforms has erased the kind of quasi-familial support and connection, the absence of which was truly felt by workers during the pandemic. 

Trans-sitting through Life is a toolkit designed as a board game to support diversity and inclusion trainers and community workers with their transgender persons related sensitisation programmes and efforts. This game is designed to provide the players with an experience of the lived realities of transgender persons as they wade through different aspects of their life.

Against much uproar from the transgender community, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019 was enacted by the Government of India in December 2019 to recognise and protect the rights of transgender persons. Opposition from the transgender community was due to several problematic provisions in the statute including the demand for surgical intervention…

Since its passage, the Rural Employment Act of India guaranteed employment for millions of women in the country. But to promote digitisation in the country, the introduction of two recent changes in the Act have led to creating challenges for the workers in marking attendance and getting fair wage.

Privacy in India has always been regarded as unnecessary for women and young girls - more for those from religious minority groups. But women and gender and sexual minorities have found ways to exercise their right to privacy within and outside their homes. Digital privacy is an extension of them carving their way to demand this constitutionally protected right.