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
- UN report: One third of India’s Dalits remain poor (IDSN)
- 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)
Press Clippings on Dalit Children
- Child Labour, Caste Discrimination Closely Interlinked In India: UN Report (NDTV)
- 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)
Dalit Children & UN
- IDSN input on the Worst Forms of Child Labour for UN SR Slavery 2025 report
- Child labour in the primary production of sugarcane (ILO)
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Safety and Health Fact Sheet Hazardous Child Labour in Agriculture – Cotton (ILO, 2025)
- Report of the Working group on the UPR India 4th cycle 2022
- Contemporary forms of slavery affecting persons belonging to ethnic, religious and linguistic minority communities Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, Tomoya Obokata
- Child Labour, Caste Discrimination Closely Interlinked In India: UN Report (NDTV)
- Mauritania: UN expert encouraged by progress but says more work needed to fully eradicate slavery | OHCHR
- In India, 5 out of 6 multidimensionally poor are from lower tribes or castes: UN report | India News – Times of India
- 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
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)
