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The highlights of the report include:

  • Dalit women human rights defenders addressed the UN CEDAW Committee, calling for action on caste and gender based discrimination in Nepal
  • The UN Special Rapporteur on Racism issued a landmark report recognising caste and gender as intersecting forms of structural discrimination
  • IDSN co organised a CSW69 parallel event centring lived intersectionality and the leadership of Dalit women from South Asia
  • Dalit human rights defenders engaged directly with EU institutions during two IDSN organised advocacy missions to Brussels
  • Dalit activists contribute to EU-NGO session on discrimination based on work and descent leading to proposal for EU Strategy on Caste
  • Dalit activists from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan took part in an IDSN delegation and gave statements at the UN Forum on Minority Issues
  • IDSN supported a Dalit delegation to Nepal’s UPR Pre Session and submitted a joint shadow report by 36 Dalit led organisations
  • IDSN submitted multiple inputs to UN Special Procedures, Treaty Bodies and the Human Rights Council
  • IDSN co-organised a joint Ethical Trading Initiative webinar on ‘Women leading change in global supply chains’
  • IDSN submitted an evidence based report to the European Commission to inform the EU Forced Labour Regulation Risk Database
  • IDSN co-organised a side-event at the OECD Forum and participated in the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, highlighting caste based labour exploitation in global supply chains