India's traditional open-air laundries, known as dhobi ghats, hold cultural significance and have provided livelihoods to ...

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 Irish girls and women, specifically unmarried mothers, and those considered promiscuous, sexually abused, and/or a burden to their families or the state, were ...

His moral sense provokes him into action. The film is not a history of the laundries, but a portrayal of one good deed that makes a difference, a "small thing" that carries extraordinary power and ...

Mary Cavner, 80, who lives in Hampshire but grew up in County Cork, was sent to work in one of Ireland's notorious Catholic-run Magdalene Laundries. She said her six years at the workhouse ...

Remote Laundries Project has seen improvements in remote Northern Territory communities with the rise of skin infections and scabies reduced. With the aim of raising $20-thousand dollars for ...

"The novel isn’t just an eloquent attack on the Magdalene Laundries. It is also a touching Christmas tale, genuinely reminiscent of the festive stories of O Henry and Charles Dickens," said one ...