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Why India still waits for manual scavengers to clean up its shit – Justice News
The ‘manual scavengers’ of India whose tasks include removing human excrement by hand
Discrimination: Soldier funeral reveals India outsize outcaste problem (IANS, 2016)
Challenges & Opportunities: The Advancement of Human Rights in India (Human Rights Watch, 2016)
On 7 June, the Asia Policy Director of Human Rights Watch, John Sifton, testified before a human rights hearing on India in the United States Congress. The hearing coincided with the arrival in the US of Indian Prime Minister Modi. Sifton made numerous references to caste discrimination and called on Members of Congress to include the issue in their dialogues with the Indian authorities. “The United States government should also encourage US companies investing in India to ensure that their hiring and management practices do not further entrench caste or other discrimination,” he added.
Civil Society Members Meet President to Demand an End to Manual Scavenging and Sewer Deaths – Indian Cultural Forum
SOS: Get us out of the gutter (Tribune India)
Reality Of Clean India? Manual Scavenging Still An Ugly Truth For 1000s (Youth-Kiawaaz)
Twenty-Three Years Since Anti-Manual Scavenging Act Not Much Has Changed on Ground | The Wire
Bhim Yatra: a bus full of hope for the manual scavenger (Catch News)
The women who refuse to do India’s dirtiest job | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian
India’s female scavengers enslaved by caste, gender discrimination (Reuters, 2016)
Bhim Yatra gives hope to manual scavengers (IDSN News)
For the past four months, activists have criss-crossed India to protest against manual scavenging. Their march – the Bhim Yatra – concludes in New Delhi tomorrow, on the eve of the 125th birthday of the great Dalit leader, Dr Ambedkar.
HRW: EU should encourage India to protect Dalits (IDSN News)
On the eve of today’s EU-India Summit, Human Rights Watch has written a letter to the EU addressing numerous key human rights issues. These include the failure of the Indian government to protect the country’s Dalit population.
Two Manual Scavengers Die of Suffocation (The New Indian Express)
This ends with me: A ‘safai karamchari’s’ dreams for a different life (The Indian Express)
Flooded Chennai’s dirty secret: Dalits clean rotting mess (Hindustan Times)
Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation
Manual scavenging is illegal, so why do states continue to support the practice? (Scroll.in)
Photos: Mumbai’s 30,000 unsung Dalit heroes are languishing in filth and squalor
A photo essay on the city's conservatory workers shines light on the deplorable conditions they live and work in.