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Confronting the Pandemic

The report captures the possible widening gap in educational attainment between the SC/ST students and others during the Covid 19.

Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Afghanistan – The Norwegian Human Rights Fund

NHRF arranged an event on the situation of Afghanistan at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. The panel discussion was opened by Professor Peris Sean Jones from the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, and the panel consisted of Horia Mosadiq, Afghan human rights defender and founder of Safety and Risk Mitigation Organization (SRMO), Meena Varma, Executive Director of International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) and Liv Kjølseth, Secretary General of the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee. NHRF’s Executive Director Ingeborg Moa moderated the panel.

Global forum addresses the caste and sanitation work nexus (IDSN News)

The links between caste and hazardous forms of sanitation work were highlighted by speakers at the Sanitation Workers Forum 2021 from 29 November – 2 December. Participants at the forum urged that immediate steps are taken to ensure the safety and dignity of millions of sanitation workers worldwide – and ensure social protections.

UN report: One third of India’s Dalits remain poor (IDSN)

The most recent Global Multidimensional Poverty Index includes caste as an important indicator of poverty in India. According to this method of measuring poverty, progress has been made, but Dalits and Adivasis are still disproportionately poor and women and girls are lagging behind.

Nepal: UN Poverty Expert says caste discrimination is “the single most important factor” explaining why Dalits are disproportionately affected by poverty – International Dalit Solidarity Network

Following his visit to Nepal that started on 29 November, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, Olivier De Schutter, released a statement highlighting the persistent interconnections between caste and poverty in Nepal. The Rapporteur also raised issues of caste violence and the need to do more to ensure meaningful political representation of Dalit women in Nepal.

Dalit rights defenders speak out on caste at the EU-NGO Forum (IDSN)

Economic, social and labour rights were the thematic headlines of this year’s EU-NGO Human Rights Forum, where three Dalit human rights defenders were featured as panellists, facilitated by IDSN. Caste-related barriers to healthcare in Pakistan, post-covid economic and social recovery for Dalit workers in South Asia and building corporate accountability to respect human rights were among the key topics covered by the panellists.

Apply anti-atrocities Act on Dalit Muslims, Christians: UN anti-race panel tells GoI

In a controversial move, which runs contrary to the current Modi government policy, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which falls under the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in a new report has asked the Government of India (GoI) to ensure that the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act 2015 – called anti-atrocities Act – should be applied to not just those Dalits which are supposed to part of Hindu religion.