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Oxfam: Caste and gender underpin employment inequality in India

Inequality in employment along caste and gender lines is a massive obstacle to alleviating poverty and inequality in India, finds the Oxfam India report ‘Mind The Gap – State of Employment in India’. The report […]
May 24th, 2019|Business, Caste-based slavery, Dalit Children, Dalit Women, India|
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Consultation on global action to address discrimination based on work and descent held in Senegal

On April 9-11 IDSN supported the Dakar Consultation on Global Partnership and Joint Actions in Addressing Discrimination based on Work & Descent – DWD, Untouchability, Contemporary Forms of Slavery and Analogous Forms of Discrimination that […]
May 18th, 2019|Africa, Bangladesh, Diaspora, Human Rights Defenders, India, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Solidarity Networks, South Asia, Sri Lanka, UK, Uncategorized, Yemen|
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New EU human rights guidelines highlight the need to address caste in EU’s external action

IDSN welcomes the new EU Human Rights Guidelines on Non-discrimination in External Action, where caste is mentioned several times as a form of discrimination that must be addressed. It is specified in the guidelines that […]
April 12th, 2019|European Union|
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MEP’s ask EU to act to end the unjust blocking of IDSN’s UN accreditation

Several high-profile members of the European Parliament have sent a letter to the EU High-Representative for Foreign Affairs, Frederica Mogherini, asking the EU to take action to support IDSN’s 10-year quest for UN accreditation, […]
April 9th, 2019|European Union, Human Rights Defenders, India, United Nations|
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Brick kiln workers stand up for their rights (Anti-Slavery International)

Read about the Dalit family’s struggle to break out of bonded labour here >>
April 4th, 2019|Business, Caste-based slavery, India|
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Study finds Dalits working in forced and child labour in India’s garment industry

The report offers the most wide-reaching and comprehensive investigation into the conditions of work in India’s home-based garment sector. “Time and time again studies find that Dalits in the global supply chains are working in […]
March 29th, 2019|Business, Dalit Children, Dalit Women, India|
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Caste discrimination is blocking progress on the SDGs says UK NGO development network BOND

A new report Caste and Development: Tackling Discrimination Based on Work and Descent has just been released by the UK NGO development network BOND highlighting the urgent need to address caste discrimination in order […]
March 22nd, 2019|Africa, Bangladesh, development, Diaspora, India, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, UK, United Nations, Yemen|
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UN rights chief warns against “increasing harassment and targeting of” Dalits, Muslims and Adivasis in India

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michele Bachelet, raises concern over increasing marginalisation and discrimination in India, in her speech to the UN Human Rights Council. Speaking about the situation in India, the High Commissioner […]
March 12th, 2019|Uncategorized|
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“Today, we are not here only to speak of our plight. We are also agents of change”, says Ruth Manorama at the UN Human Rights Council

On Friday 8 March, Ruth Manorama, a Dalit human rights defender, delivered a statement, co-sponsored by the International Movement against all Forms of Racial Discrimination (IMADR)and by the Right Livelihood Award (in solidarity with […]
March 8th, 2019|Uncategorized|
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Dalit women defenders featured by UN Women on Women’s Day (Video)

Asha Kowtal, General Secretary of the Dalit Women’s Movement AIDMAM-NCDHR, an IDSN member talks about the Dalit Women Fight movement in this UN Women & Google collaboration 5 minute video. “We are not silent. You […]
March 8th, 2019|Dalit Women, Human Rights Defenders, India, United Nations, Violence and atrocities|
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