By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Nov 7, 2023: Official recognition as essential workers, registration, identity cards, and setting up a helpline app to address workplace harassment were some demands from the garbage collectors of Hyderabad. More than 500 garbage collectors met November 5 to highlight their pressing demands and theContinue Reading
By Abisha Aseervatham Hyderabad, July 19, 2023: A “Postcard Campaign” was launched in Telangana to advocate for the expansion of Employee’s State Insurance (ESI) to all workers in the unorganized sector. The campaign was initiated by the Montfort Social Institute (MSI) in Hyderabad, capital of Telangana, in partnership with theContinue Reading
By Vivek Joseph Hyderabad: Leaders of transgender and Hijra communities in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on July 15 met with officials of the Telangana government at an event held at the Montfort Social Institute. The Montfort institute collaborated with the Human Rights Law Network and the Trans EqualityContinue Reading
By Vivek Joseph Hyderabad: A Montfort institute in Hyderabad has pressed the Telangana government to vaccinate the transgender community as a priority. “The vulnerability of the trans community, who have faced centuries of structural violence and marginalization, has increasingly deepened over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Montfort BrotherContinue Reading
By Vivek Joseph Hyderabad: The Montfort Social Institute in Hyderabad on June 4 opened its “‘Free Covid Care Centre” to serve patients from slums in southern Indian city, who have no place to isolate at home. “Numerous Covid positive patients in the slums have not been able to isolate dueContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, July 12, 2019: Montfort Social Institute in Hyderabad, India, will host the launch meeting of the newly formed South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC), a rainbow coalition of South Asian civil society organizations. The September 18-21 meet on “Keep the Climate, Change theContinue Reading