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: Over 50% of child labourers in cottonseed farms in India are Dalits or Adivasis (IDSN News)
- Report outlines recommendations for action on caste and gender justice in Nepal (IDSN News)
- Dalit women producing leather footwear for global brands suffer serious labour rights abuses
- No more silence: Companies must address caste in their global supply chains (ETI-UK)
- Study finds Dalits working in forced and child labour in India’s garment industry (IDSN News)
- We have a dream (IDSN Statement 2018)
- 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
Press Clippings on Dalit Children
- Child marriage and child labour: Slavery is not dead in sugarcane (COUNTERVIEW.ORG)
- 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)
Dalit Children & UN
- Examining the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child through the Lens of Caste- and Descent-Based Discrimination (Chapter in Oxford Handbooks)
- Indian authorities continue to stifle dissent and persecute activists despite pandemic surge – CIVICUS – Tracking conditions for citizen action
- Contribution from the International Dalit Solidarity Network IDSN
- Recommendations for the 43rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council (24 February – 20 March 2020)
- We have a dream (IDSN Statement 2018)
- 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
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)