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Child marriage and child labour: Slavery is not dead in sugarcane (COUNTERVIEW.ORG)
In August 2020, Global March Against Child Labour released an evidence-based report, providing an overview of the situation of child labour with a gender lens in sugarcane harvesting in India. The report highlights that children are pushed into hazardous child labour due to structural poverty among harvesters, most of whom are from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, also referred to as DBA (Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi/Tribal) in this article, because of exploitative hiring practices resulting in debt bondage. It was found that traditional gender-based norms contributed significantly to child labour by normalising unequal wages and unpaid family work.
The Mica Children: Fighting for Survival in India’s Deadly Mines (Spiegel online)
Dalit children are facing extremely dangerous working conditions and violations of their basic human rights, working in child labour in mines supplying Mica to the cosmetics industries.
In Meerut, People – Including Children – Were Arrested for Being Dalit
According to the Dalits who spent months in jail, the police specifically asked people their caste and arrested them even if they weren't involved in the Bharat Bandh protest.
The Death of Merit: Caste and Education | EYEZINE
Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns (Different Truths, 2016)
Lenin takes us through the sordid and macabre accounts of contemporary slavery in brick kilns, based on actual accounts of the hapless victims. Driven by hunger and starvation, many children die of malnutrition. When the bonded labourers ask for money for the treatment of sick children, they are beaten up, blue-black. Children die, young girls and women are sexually exploited. People cannot escape the debt traps and clutches of the brick kiln owners. They are hounded. Police are hand-in- gloves with the brick kiln owners. Against all odds, his organisation, Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), has stood up for the cause of the Dalit and Musahar victims. There is a new dawn of dignity and identity for hopeless victims. Here’s a special story, an in-depth report to combat and resolve the problems, on the occasion of May Day by Different Truths (DT) and PVCHR.
India: Violence Against Dalits on the Rise (The Diplomat, 2016)
Despite robust laws, violence against India’s most oppressed people continues to rise.
Twilight children – Disadvantaged caste working to meet Global market demands (Opinion – The Hindu)
To meet the demands of global markets, Indian manufacturers have replaced adult workers with teenaged, mostly female, workers drawn from agriculturally impoverished regions and disadvantaged castes.
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
High Court Serious; Asks the Government to Respond
Sir said I was a Dalit so I couldn’t be part of Puja: Odisha schoolgirl (The Indian Express)
After Dalit Teen’s Rapists Tried To Blackmail Her, She’s Speaking Out To Create Change (Huffington Post)
Vaibhav And Divya’s Murder: A Culmination Of Caste Discrimination And Violence Against Dalits (CounterCurrents.org)
A Preliminary Fact Finding Report on Dalit Family Set Afire At Sunped, Haryana, India
In The Dead Of The Night, Hatred Burns (Tehelka)
Two Dalit children were killed in Faridabad district when their house was set on fire. A close look at the tragedy and its aftermath.