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RECASTING JUSTICE. Neville Dastoor and Tafadzwa Pasipanodya, Jayne Huckerby, Smita Narula, 2007, CHRGJ. The report analyzes Nepal’s Interim Constitution to inform how the new constitution may be drafted in accordance with the country’s international human rights obligations to secure the rights of Dalits. |
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DALIT RIGHTS KATHMANDU CHARTER. National Dalit Conference, Kathmandu 2007. The Kathmandu Declaration from 2007 contains the demands of Dalits in Nepal for a democractic and inclusive new republic. |
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THE MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE. Rajeev Goyal and Puja Dhawan, Smita Narula, 2005, CHRGJ. This report charges that caste discrimination is both a root cause and insidious consequence of the conflict in Nepal. |
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CASTE-BASED DISCRIMINATION IN SOUTH ASIA - A STUDY ON NEPAL. Krishna B. Bhattachan et al, 2008, IIDS. Part of a regional research projected this report documents caste discrimination in Nepal. |
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THE DALITS OF NEPAL - ACTING FOR CHANGE. IDSN, 2008. A fact sheet on caste discrimination in Nepal. |
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090223-Joint_Statement-Final_ENG__PDF.pdf RECASTING JUSTICE (2009): SECURING DALIT RIGHTS IN NEPAL’S NEW CONSTITUTION – a Joint Statement by New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ), Dalit NGO Federation (DNF); and International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) presenting key recommendations to the Constituent Assembly drafting committee.Issued on 23 february 2009 |
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recasting_justice_nepali_PDF.pdf NEPALI VERSION OF: RECASTING JUSTICE: SECURING DALIT RIGHTS IN NEPAL’S NEW CONSTITUTION – a Joint Statement by New York University School of Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ), Dalit NGO Federation (DNF); and International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) presenting key recommendations to the Constituent Assembly drafting committee - 23 february 2009 |
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DalitsOfNepalAndTheNewConstitution.pdf THE DALITS OF NEPAL AND A NEW CONSTITUTION:Resource on the Situation of Dalits in Nepal, their Demands and the Implications for a new Constitution - Compiled by: United Nations Development Programme, Kathmandu, September 2008 |
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UNDP_Human_Development_Report_Nepal_2009.pdf NEPAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009 - UNDP - State transformation and Human Development, United Nations Development Programme - Nepal |
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Dalit Women
NDC and OHCHR Observations on the Untouchability Bill in Nepal - 2010
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ALRC-12a-Dalit_Women_Nepal_India.rtf Statement on Violence against Dalit women in India and Nepal received by Commission on Human Rights by Asian Legal Resource Centre 2004. |
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Observations_on_the_Untouchability_Bill_-_NDC_and_OHCHR-Nepal.pdf |
Statement on Violence against Dalit women in India and Nepal received by Commission on Human Rights by Asian Legal Resource Centre 2004.
Dalit women in India: issues and perspectives by Prahlad Gangaram Jogdand, Gyan Books, 1995 (Not available online).
Read about Dalit women's rights in Nepal in Chapter E of Recasting Justice: Securing Dalit Rights in Nepal’s New Constitution, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (New York: NYU School of Law, 2008).
Bonded Labour
Forced Labour: Facts and Figures, The cost of coercion: Regional Perspectives, ILO, Geneva, 2009, p17.
South Asian Debt Bondage Study - BASELINE STUDY FOR NEPAL, October 2001 CMF / CEAPRED Research Team, International Labour Organization Social Finance Unit.
Poverty, discrimination and slavery. The reality of bonded labour in India, Nepal and Pakistan, K. Prasad Upadhyaya, op. cit., pp7-8.
South Asian Debt Bondage Study - BASELINE STUDY FOR NEPAL October 2001 CMF / CEAPRED Research Team, International Labour Organization Social Finance Unit.
Nepal - Debt Bondage within the Kamaiya and Haliya/Haruwa Systems, Report by Dr Shiva Sharma, General Secretary, Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC), Kathmandu, Nepal. for the United Nations Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and protection of Minorities, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, 24th Session, Geneva, 23 June - 2 July 1999.
Key Report
Poverty, Discrimination and Slavery:The reality of bonded labour in India, Nepal and Pakistan, Anti-Slavery International 2008.
