Human Rights
A Bank of Their Own
Shunned by traditional financial systems, sex workers in Asia’s largest red-light district started their own bank. Now it is empowering other marginalized groups.
Puja Changoiwala
Water & Sanitation
Waterborne Democracy for Rural India
For more than four decades, Gram Vikas has been delivering equitable water and sanitation systems to deprived villages in rural India by training and encouraging them to take ownership of their solutions.
Human Rights
Disrupting the Patriarchy
India’s first women clerics are working to challenge entrenched Muslim gender norms.