Key resources

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION ON GOOD PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE CASTE-BASED DISCRIMINATION, 29 November - 1 December 2011

Read about the outcome declaration, urgent global call for action and recommendations of the Consultation here >>

Read the report from the International Consultation here >>

UN frameworks and resource guides

• Draft UN Principles and Guidelines for the Elimination of Discrimination based on Work and Descent
• UNDP Resource Guide: Marginalised Minorities in Development Programming

IDSN publications

IDSN resources:

• Compilation of UN references to caste-based discrimination by Treaty Bodies, UPR, and Special Procedures
• Caste discrimination in business operations and Dalit Discrimination Check
• Country information
• Key issues (Dalit women, bonded labour, education, political participation, forced prostitution, manual scavenging, non-implementation of legistation)

IDSN recommendations:

• IDSN recommendations to the EU
• IDSN recommendations to the UN Human Rights Council

Declarations:

• Kathmandu Dalit Declaration 2004
• Declaration on Decisive Decade against Discrimination based on Work and Descent (2011-2020)

IDSN consultations:

• Executive summary of the report from the International consultation on caste-based discrimination, November 29 – December 1 2004, Kathmandu, Nepal.