Universal Periodic Report of Nepal 3rd Cycle – Fact Sheet

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Fact sheet developed by the Dalit Nepal Federation for the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of Nepal.

Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-based Garment Sector

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Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-based Garment Sector by Siddharth Kara offers the most comprehensive investigation yet into the conditions of work for women and girls in India’s home-based garment sector. Approximately 85 percent of the home-based garment workers documented for the report exclusively work in supply chains for […]

Rehabilitating Former Manual Scavengers

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Breaking Free: Rehabilitating Manual Scavengers Manual scavenging refers to the practice of manually cleaning, carrying, disposing or handling in any manner, human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. It often involves using the most basic of tools such as buckets, brooms and baskets. The practice of manual scavenging is linked to India’s caste system where […]

“They Say We’re Dirty” – Denying an Education to India’s Marginalized 

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Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims are most at risk of dropping out of school and being denied an education in India – states the comprehensive report “They say we’re dirty” – Denying an Education to India’s Marginalised, just released by Human Rights Watch. The authors of the report interviewed hundreds of students, parents, teachers and officials […]

Rights within reach

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Rights within reach: Securing equality and human rights in Nepal’s new constitution

Tainted Carpets: Slavery and Child Labor in India’s Hand-Made Carpet Sector

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Tainted Carpets: Slavery and Child Labor in India’s Hand-Made Carpet Sector is the largest single first-hand study of slavery and child labor conducted to date, and the largest single study of slavery and child labor in a commodity’s supply chain. Kara was the lead investigator and author of the report, which was released through […]

Cleaning human waste

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“Manual Scavenging,” Caste, and Discrimination in India AUGUST 25, 2014 This 96-page report documents the coercive nature of manual scavenging. Across India, castes that work as “manual scavengers” collect human excrement on a daily basis, and carry it away in cane baskets for disposal. Women from this caste usually clean dry toilets in homes, while men […]

India Exclusion Report 2013-14 – Centre for Equity Studies

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Read caste-related selected extracts from the India Exclusion Report or download the full report. The report analyses discrimination across labour, education and housing in India. Within all these areas Dalits, and particularly Dalit women, come out at the bottom of the tables. “India is inherently prone to exclusion practices that make large quantities of people extremely vulnerable to a […]