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Report: “Even war discriminates’: Yemen’s minorities, exiled at home” (IDSN News)
A new Minority Rights Group (MRG) report on Yemen focuses on the extreme situation faced by the minorities in the war torn country. The report finds that the Muhamasheen, discriminated against on the basis of caste, reside in some of the worst hit areas of Yemen but face exclusion in access to shelter, relief articles and health facilities. The report states that the Muhamasheen are at risk of death, disease, hunger and further violence and humanitarian actors and the international community must step up efforts to offer relief to these communities.
IDSN Statement: 50 years of ICERD – from paper tigers to global action
IDSN note on caste-based discrimination in Africa, Yemen and diaspora communities (June 2015)
Yemen: Groundbreaking UNICEF survey reveals enormous welfare gap between Al-Akhdam and the general population (IDSN news)
UNICEF Yemen Muhammasheen (Akhdam) mapping update report January 2015
UNICEF Yemen situtation report on reaching the Akhdam community (June 2014)
Briefing note and recommendations – June 2015 IDSN – COHOM Exchange
IDSN note on caste references in MRG report 2015
IDSN briefing note on Bangladesh
Examples of forced & bonded labour of Dalit women
Quotes: Caste and forced & Bonded Labour
Report from IDSN UN side event: Caste and Gender-Based Forced and Bonded Labour
REPORT - Caste and Gender-Based Forced and Bonded Labour from UN HRC29 IDSN SIDE-EVENT 18th June 2015, 17.00-18.30
Scheduled Caste Children in Pakistan (IDSN and PDSN July 2015 alternative report for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2015)
The alternative report on scheduled caste children in Pakistan is written by the Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network (PDSN) and the International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) and submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for the 72nd Pre-sessional Working Group session (5-9 October 2015) and the review of Pakistan at the 72nd Working Group session (6 May-3 June 2016). The report examines the current situation of scheduled caste (Dalit) children and provides information about the implementation gaps in the enforcement of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, and makes recommendations for the Committee’s examination. The observations are based on independent studies and reports, case documentation, and recommendations by other UN human rights bodies.
Caste, Gender and Forced and Bonded Labour (IDSN briefing note)
Briefing note including cases and quotes.
Dalits Still Working in Bonded Labour in the Cotton Industry Despite Some Improvements, New Report Finds (IDSN, 2012, News)
Video: Dalit women – intro video from IDSN
This short film brings to light a handful of violations that those who continue to be treated as ‘untouchables’, are subjected to, focusing particularly on Dalit Women who must deal with multiple discrimination due to gender and caste. They also show how Dalit activists stand up for their rights and demand change. The film is a collage of video material from Dalit community video volunteers, documentary filmmakers, and NGOs. The film includes: Rape and sexual abuse: Dalit women describe how they are abused and raped by ‘upper castes’, often in retaliation for Dalit communities asserting their rights. Forced prostitution: A 14 year-old Dalit girl in Nepal works as a prostitute because it is prescribed to her caste and in India Dalit girls are made to work as temple prostitutes.
Caste featured in the EU EIDHR Annual Action Plan 2015
The Annual Action Plan 2015 for the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) has integrated the rights of persons affected by caste based discrimination as a cross-cutting concern. It makes specific mention of persons affected by caste discrimination in action documents on support to civil society, in its actions to support protection and promotion of human rights, human rights defenders, universities for human rights and democracy postgraduate education and in supporting key international actors – the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
FEDO (Nepal) report for CSW59 on Dalit Women March 2015
WG on African Descent Member note caste-based discrimination at GA, March 20 2015
Keynote Speech delivered by Professor Verene Shepherd (Member of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent) at the UN General Assembly on the Occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination