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The latest IDSN newsletter once again underlines that caste discrimination is a serious international human rights issue.
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GalleryIDSN Annual Report 2010
The IDSN 2010 Annual Report is now published and ready for download.
UN report with strong Dalit focus
A new report from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of her office in Nepal contains numerous references to Dalits and caste discrimination.
UPR: Many caste references in Nepal review
More than 20 states referred to caste discrimination in their interventions during the Universal Periodic Review of Nepal. The Nepali government has expressed its support for a number of the recommendations made on 25 January in Geneva.
GalleryNepal: NDC and OHCHR analyse Untouchability Bill
The National Dalit Commission of Nepal (NDC) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal) have called for improvements in a draft bill on caste discrimination.
GalleryGet updated with IDSN’s November newsletter
The issue of caste discrimination is receiving welcome and significant international attention in a number of places. The IDSN November newsletter is reflecting this trend.
GalleryUN Special Rapporteur seriously concerned about caste system
The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Githu Muigai, has expressed his serious concern about the continuing existence of the caste system and described caste discrimination as a form of “societal” structural racial discrimination.
Open letter to Barack Obama ahead of his visit to India
IDSN urges President Barack Obama to raise the issue of caste discrimination on his upcoming visit to India
GalleryUN experts concerned about Dalits
Two United Nations Independent Experts have published a joint report from their visit to Bangladesh in December 2009. The experts note that Dalits suffer from "terrible living conditions."
Nepal: NGOs submit report to UN mechanism
Nepalese NGOs have prepared a joint submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The report includes a number of recommendations to the Nepalese government on how to address caste discrimination.