GalleryInclusive Vulnerability Mapping & Monitoring of Post Disaster Response
Bonded labour, Child labour, Other key reports, Publications, Slavery, South Asia
Harvard child labour expert, Siddharth Kara, comments that caste is a key factor underlying child slavery in India. He says that,
“Every single child labourer that I have documented comes from a highly impoverished family unit and belongs to a low-caste or minority community.”
It is Kara’s second explosive study of slavery, this time focusing on […]
GalleryClaiming Justice: A Study of Civil Society Organizations’ (CSO) Interventions in Addressing Atrocities Against Dalits and Tribals
India, Justice, Other key reports, Publications
Read the full report here (uploaded to the IDSN website with the permission of NDMJ)
Nazdeek, a legal capacity building organization committed to bringing access to justice close for marginalized communities in India, in collaboration with the National Dalit Movement for Justice announces the release of the groundbreaking report Claiming Justice: A Study of Civil Society Organizations’ (CSO) Interventions in […]
GalleryViolence against Dalit women
India, Other key reports, Publications, Women
Violence against Dalit women (AIDMAM, 2012, Publication)
GalleryJustice Under Trial: Caste Discrimination in Access to Justice before Special Courts
India, Other key reports, Publications
A comprehensive 2014 report by the National Dalit Movement for Justice (NCDHR) finds serious obstacles to Dalits obtaining justice in crimes against them and reports growing impunity when victims are Dalits. The report findings mirror many of the findings in the report Claiming Justice – also from 2014.
GalleryDalit Rights are Human Rights
Bangladesh, Other key reports, Publications
Dalit Rights are Human Rights (One World Action/BDERM, 2010, Publication) (2010)
GalleryCaste Discrimination and Harassment in Great Britain (Nieser, 2010, Publication)
Other key reports, Publications, UK
The Government-commissioned research into the prevalence of caste prejudice and discrimination undertaken by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
GalleryUnderstanding Untouchability
India, Other key reports, Publications, Untouchability
Understanding Untouchability – A Comprehensive Study of Practices and Conditions in 1589 Villages by Navsarjan Trust and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights (2010)
Caste-based discrimination is the most complex human rights issue facing India today. To date, the tools used to assess its status have been divided by discipline—human rights, […]
GalleryUnequal by Law, Unequal by Caste
Justice, Other key reports, Publications
Caste-based oppression in India lives today in an environment seemingly hostile to its presence: a nation-state that has long been labeled the “world’s largest democracy;” a progressive and protective constitution; a system of laws designed to proscribe and punish acts of discrimination on the basis of caste; broad-based programs of affirmative action that include […]
GalleryHidden Apartheid – Caste Discrimination Against India’s ‘Untouchables’ (Human Rights Watch/CHRGJ, 2007, Publication)
Other key reports, Publications, South Asia
Hidden Apartheid was produced as a “shadow report” to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in advance of its February 2007 consideration of a report by the government of India.
CERD is a body of independent experts responsible for monitoring states’ compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All […]