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Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation
Testimonies of Women who faced discrimination- While Accessing WASH services – YouTube
Dalit girl beaten up in MP as her shadow falls on ‘upper caste’ man (The Hindu)
Water and sanitation and Dalits in Bangladesh – briefing note (BDERM)
The Kathmandu Post :: Dalits barred from well
Wateraid statement on manual scavenging 2014
Tom Palakudiyil, Head of South Asia Region for WaterAid (Statement on 28th August 2014) in connection with the release of the Human Rights Watch report Cleaning Human Waste: "Manual Scavenging," Caste, and Discrimination in India
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
‘If you don’t send your women to clean our toilets, we will beat them up’ (The Hindu)
by Meena Menon
Low-caste Indians forced into ‘dirty’ jobs (ABC News)
India lower caste still removing human waste (Al Jazeera)
By Betwa Sharma
‘Untouchables’ Still Pressed to Work Disposing Human Waste (Wall Street Journal)
Low-caste Indians still forced to clean human waste: rights group (AFP)
by AFP and carried by ABC, Radio Australia, The National, The Rakyat Post, Bangkok Post, Global Post, Gulf Today, Hindustan Times etc
HRW: India′s ′untouchables′ still pressed to clean human excrement (Deutsche Welle)
India’s ‘Untouchables’ Are Still Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand (TIME)
Group decries India’s reliance on waste cleaners (AP)
By Associated press, carried by Washington Post, San Louis Obispo Tribune, Arab News, Huffington Post, Fox News, Scotsman, China Post, Vancouver Desi, CTV, Minneapolis Star Tribune and more.
India’s low castes still forced to clean human excreta, says HRW (Reuters)
By: Nita Bhalla - reprinted by IBN, Deccan Chronicle, Yahoo News, etc.)
In pictures: India’s ‘untouchable’ scavengers (BBC)
Human Rights Watch 2014 Manual Scavenging Report – Collation of key global press clippings
The Indian Government should end manual scavenging says Human Rights Watch in the report, Cleaning Human Waste: "Manual Scavenging," Caste, and Discrimination in India. The report was released together with a short video and received extensive media coverage, read key press clippings here.
Indian Minister says that manual scavenging persisists and the implementation of the manual scavenging act is being monitored
In a written reply to the Indian House of Parliament (Lok Sabha), the Indian Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, Thaawar Chand Gehlot, said that the practice of manual scavenging still persists in various parts of the country. He added that because previous laws banning the practice had proved inadequate, parliament had enacted the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, the implementation of which is now be monitored.