Kakkoos Documentary Film Official Release | Direction – Divya – YouTube
Documentary about manual scavenging in India.
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Angela Davis speaks up about #DalitLivesMatter (IDSN News)
Veteran civil rights and #BlackLivesMatter campaigner Professor Angela Davis has given a video statement about the need for increased solidarity with the #DalitLivesMatter movement.
UN experts raise concern over caste-based slavery (IDSN News)
UN experts spoke out about the links between discrimination and slavery at the webinar “Contemporary Slavery & Racial Discrimination: Civil Society Support to Survivors during the Pandemic” organised by the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, the UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, the Geneva Human Rights Platform and the UK Mission in Geneva, on 2 December. Several experts raised concern over caste discrimination and caste-based occupations as well as the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on vulnerable groups.
Statement by Dr. Angela Davis – YouTube
Veteran civil rights and #BlackLivesMatter campaigner Professor Angela Davis has given a video statement about the need for increased solidarity with the #DalitLivesMatter movement.
Contemporary Slavery & Racial Discrimination: Civil Society Support to Survivors during the Pandemic – YouTube
Webinar on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, organized by the UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, the Geneva Human Rights Platform and the UK Mission in Geneva.
Video: Manjula Pradeep on Caste and Women’s Labour (So Many Feminisms)
Manjula Pradeep, human rights activist and founder of Wayve Foundation on caste and women's labour speaks about the unique situtation of Dalit women in relation to labour and modern slavery.
The Cost of Cleanliness – Documentary on Deaths of Manual Scavengers in India (Video 2018)
“The Cost of Cleanliness” is based on the deaths of Dalit workers engaged in cleaning sewers and septic tanks and was release to coincide with the report Justice Denied – Death of workers engaged in manual scavenging by Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan
Video: SR on Slavery on the role of UN in combatting intersection of caste and gender (OHCHR)
Video: Manual Scavenging: Picking Up Human Waste In India (Al Jazeera)
Despite laws preventing manual scavenging, the tradition of the lower caste people of removing human waste is still alive in India. Kavita presents us with the life of a manual scavenger and the hardships she faces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jlU7SLZYmg.
New documentary on caste-based prostitution coming up (Video)
Bulbul: song of the Nightingale -
Forced to Clean Human Waste in India (Video – Human Rights Watch)
The Indian Government should end manual scavenging says Human Rights Watch in the new report, Cleaning Human Waste: "Manual Scavenging," Caste, and Discrimination in India. The report was released together with this short video
Desperate, disgusted but proud: India’s human waste removers (CNN, 2014)
“La blessure de l’esclavage” d’Ousmane Diagana – French-speaking video about caste-based slavery in Mauritania
Caste System Traps Nepal’s ‘Hereditary Prostitutes’ (2010, Video)
On the trail of human trafficking: forced labor in Nepal (CNN)
Video report by Siddharth Kara on caste-based slavery in Nepal - focus on Badi (caste-based prostitution) and Kamaliri (caste-based domestic slavery).
We are not untouchable – End Caste Discrimination Now! (2012, Video)
IDSN introduction video to caste discrimination (produced 2012)