These Dalit girls in Bangladesh are lucky to attend school. Most cannot. Photo: Matthew Becker/Advocacy Project
Documentation links on Dalit Children
IDSN News on Dalit children
- Report: Dalit men, women and children enslaved in India’s brick making industry (IDSN news)
- Campaign and new report highlight caste discrimination in schools – International Dalit Solidarity Network
- Report: Widespread child slavery in India’s yarn industry, most victims are Dalits (IDSN News, 2016)
- New report: Low caste children suffer in India’s cottonseed industry
- Experts: Law amendment will push Dalit children out of school and into child labour (IDSN News)
- Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International’s 2015 reports raise serious concern over caste discrimination
- Caste at the root of India and Mauritania’s position as top global slavery offenders
- Report: Dalit girls in modern slavery in India’s textile industry
- Caste discrimination, child labour and the Nobel peace prize winner
- Dalit girls in Nepal particularly vulnerable to child marriage
Press Clippings on Dalit Children
- The Mica Children: Fighting for Survival in India’s Deadly Mines (Spiegel online)
- In Meerut, People – Including Children – Were Arrested for Being Dalit
- The Death of Merit: Caste and Education | EYEZINE
- Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns (Different Truths, 2016)
- India: Violence Against Dalits on the Rise (The Diplomat, 2016)
- Twilight children – Disadvantaged caste working to meet Global market demands (Opinion – The Hindu)
- Harsh Mander on how Dalit children continue to bear the brunt of untouchability (The Hindu)
- Dalit girl severely beaten up after her shadow falls on high caste man (The Indian Express)
- Teacher Jailed for Forcing Dalit Boy to Clean Faeces (The New Indian Express)
- Response sought in the Dian case along with trafficking of child labour
Dalit Children & UN
- IDSN NOTE on UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report
- Dalit Children in Bangladesh (Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2015)
- Scheduled Caste Children in Pakistan (IDSN and PDSN July 2015 alternative report for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2015)
- UNESCO’s 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report – references to caste
- India Alliance for Child Rights (IACR) alternative report to UN CRC India Review 2014
- Caste-references in the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child 2014 Review of India
- UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) raise concerns for Dalit children in India
- UNICEF: Dalit girls most excluded from primary education in India
- UNICEF: Progress on the Millennium Development Goals, With Equity, in Nepal (2010, Video)
- IDSN Recommendations on the Thematic report by UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery at the 18th Session of the Human Rights Council (IDSN, 2011, Recommendation)
Videos on Dalit Children
- Video: Nepal’s Dalits face caste discrimination (Al Jazeera, 2015)
- New documentary on caste-based prostitution coming up (Video)
- “For Nepal’s Dalits, Struggle Continues Amidst Slow Progress” (IPS Video reportage)
- UNICEF: Progress on the Millennium Development Goals, With Equity, in Nepal (2010, Video)
- We are not untouchable – End Caste Discrimination Now! (2012, Video)
- Untouchability in School Food – Article 17 (2012, Video)
- Visionary School for Dalit Girls (2011, Video)
- One Woman Fights for Members of Indias Lowest Caste (2009, Video)