Press Clippings - Caste-based slavery
Press Clippings - Caste-based slavery
- Nepal workers look to Gulf to escape forced-labour system (Al Jazeera)
- Child Labour, Caste Discrimination Closely Interlinked In India: UN Report (NDTV)
- Majority of Indian domestic workers ‘work seven days a week with no annual leave’ | The Independent
- Indian factory workers supplying major brands allege routine exploitation – BBC News
- Child marriage and child labour: Slavery is not dead in sugarcane (COUNTERVIEW.ORG)
- Can India Ignore its Caste Realities While Relaxing Labour Laws? (News 18)
- No work, new debt: Covid-19 creates perfect storm for slavery in India (Today)
- Sewer Cleaners Wanted in Pakistan: Only Christians Need Apply (The New York Times)
- COVID-19 Lockdown: Domestic Workers And A Class-Caste Divide (Feminism India)
- COVID-19 poses new risks to India’s enslaved waste pickers (Thomson Reuters)
- The Indian village where child sexual exploitation is the norm (The Guardian)
- ‘Call Me Priya’: film sparks debate about India’s textile industry
- India Should Recognise That Manual Scavenging Is Akin to Slavery (TheWire)
- The Mica Children: Fighting for Survival in India’s Deadly Mines (Spiegel online)
- Activists hope Mauritania court rulings signal “…
- Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns (Different Truths, 2016)
- India’s female scavengers enslaved by caste, gender discrimination (Reuters, 2016)
- This ends with me: A ‘safai karamchari’s’ dreams for a different life (The Indian Express)
- Twilight children – Disadvantaged caste working to meet Global market demands (Opinion – The Hindu)
- Harsh Mander on how Dalit children continue to bear the brunt of untouchability (The Hindu)
- Manual scavenging is illegal, so why do states continue to support the practice? (Scroll.in)
- Response sought in the Dian case along with trafficking of child labour
- Dalit Woman Beaten Up for Refusing to be Maid – The New Indian Express
- The problem with slavery and the Sustainable Development Goals (Aidan McQuade – Equal Times)
- Photos: Mumbai’s 30,000 unsung Dalit heroes are languishing in filth and squalor
- Manual scavengers: fresh survey ordered (The Hindu)
- ‘Govt. will be asked to help Devadasis’ (The Hindu)
- Dalit girl of Theni village escapes from “hell” in spinning mill (The Hindu)
- Bonded labour in fresh avatar enters new sectors (The Hindu)
- Scraping dry toilets with their bare hands: Shocking survey shows 1.56 lakh rural households ignore ban on manual scavenging (Daily Mail Online)
- New child labour law will hit girls, dalits and OBCs most (Hindustan Times)
- Two suffocate to death in Bengaluru manhole (Zee News)
- Manual scavenging still a reality: Startling facts emerge from census (The Hindu)
- India’s child labour ‘reforms’ could make it a dangerous place to invest – Guardian Op-ed by Aidan McQuade – Anti-Slavery
- Dalits Still Working in Bonded Labour in the Cotton Industry Despite Some Improvements, New Report Finds (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Diluting India’s child labour law will trap families in cycle of poverty (Op-ed in The Guardian – by IDSN and DNN)
- From Slavery to Self Reliance: A Story of Dalit Women in South India (Inter Press Service)
- In India, a Broken System Leaves a ‘Broken’ People Powerless (Inter Press Service)
- Video: Manual Scavenging: Picking Up Human Waste In India (Al Jazeera)
- Don’t mention the apartheid: caste discrimination and poverty in South Asia (Aidan McQuade, Director of Anti-Slavery International – Equal Times)
- Don’t mention the apartheid: caste discrimination and poverty in South Asia (Equal Times)
- Modern Slavery in Bangladesh (NYTimes, 2014)
- India’s ‘Manual Scavengers’ Rise Up Against Caste Discrimination (IPS)
- India, Enforce Protection For “Untouchables” (World Policy Institute)
- Where dust brings death (The Hindu)
- Unstoppable: Two workers risking lives to fight bonded labour in Sindh
- New documentary on caste-based prostitution coming up (Video)
- Tamil Nadu’s exploited garment workers need help from British justice (The Guardian)
- Stopping the Small Hands of Slavery (Human Rights Watch)
- ′Poverty and caste′ fueling child labor in South Asia (DW)
- Forced to Clean Human Waste in India (Video – Human Rights Watch)
- HRW: India′s ′untouchables′ still pressed to clean human excrement (Deutsche Welle)
- In pictures: India’s ‘untouchable’ scavengers (BBC)
- Human Rights Watch 2014 Manual Scavenging Report – Collation of key global press clippings
- Nepal: UN Human Rights Council should exert pressure to abolish Haliya practice, a form of slavery (AHRC)
- Shocking Stories of Caste Discrimination at Public Hearing (The New Indian Express)
- Punished by axe: Bonded labour in India’s brick kilns (BBC News)
- India’s sewer cleaners keep working despite ban on job (LA Times)
- Manual scavenging continues in India: Minister (The Times of India)
- Law to Prohibit Manual Scavenging Been Implemented, High Court Asks Civic Agencies
- God’s Own Dancers- Plight of Devadasis in Karnataka (PUCL)
- India’s ‘Temple Slaves’ Struggle to Break Free | Inter Press Service
- Women tied to bonded labour in Tamil Nadu: Survey (The Times of India)
- INDIA: National shame (Asian Human Rights Commission)
- India: Democracy in a Gutter, Literally. (Asian Human Rights Commission)
- I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made, and the Factory Sent Thugs After Me (Mother Jones on Sumangali workers))
- The diaspora’s dark side (The Hindu)
- New Law to Ban Manual Removal of Human Waste Disappoints (NYTimes)
- Dalit Stops Cleaning Dry Toilets, Becomes Leader (Press)
- Desperate, disgusted but proud: India’s human waste removers (CNN, 2014)
- New Law to Ban Manual Removal of Human Waste Disappoints (NYTimes, 2014)
- No exits from these tunnels of death – The Hindu
- ‘Stop Manual Scavenging ‘ | Hard News
- The EU must address caste discrimination in dialogues with India – Alf Svensson
- Ashif Sheikh ‘cleaning’ up India’s shame of manual scavenging (News, 2013)
- India’s caste campaigners win EU backing to end ‘apartheid’ conditions (The Guardian)
- The Disgusting Stench of Incredible India (Tehelka, 2013, News)
- Dalits march against manual scavenging (IDSN News, 2012)
- The Hindu: India’s great shame – opinion piece on manual scavenging
- Opinion Piece in The Hindu (on manual scavenging): “Sh*t, caste and the holy dip” (The Hindu, 2012, News)
- Bonded (Child) Labour in the South Indian Garment Industry – An Update of Debate and Action on the ‘Sumangali Scheme’ (SOMO/ICN, News, 2012)
- IDSN: UN Experts Call for end to Caste-Based Stigma and Slavery (IDSN, 2012, News)
- IDSN: Bollywood star denounces caste discrimination (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Exploited Dalit Girls Produce Garments in India for European and US Markets – Companies Have Taken Steps, But Exploitation Remains Widespread (SOMO/India Comittee of the Netherlands, 2011, Press)
- Manual Scavenging Press Clippings (IDSN, 2010, News)
- Selected 2011 News on Caste Discrimination in India (IDSN, 2011, News)
- Former Manual Scavengers to Storm Delhi, Demand Total Eradication of Manual Scavenging and Rehabilitation Package: ‘Government Should Apologise to us’ (Safai Karamchari Andolan Delhi, 2010, Press)
- Who Will Listen to Our Plight and Pain? (Navsarjan, 2009, Press)
- On the trail of human trafficking: forced labor in Nepal (CNN)
- Dalit Girls Working Under Slave Like Conditions in India’s Garment Industry (IDSN, 2011, News)
- Motion Passed in Dutch Parliament on Full Supply Chain Transparency in India’s Garment Industry, Following Report Highlighting Dalits in Bonded Labour (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Bus ‘March’ Against Manual Scavenging (IDSN, 2010, News)
- Manu Over Ambedkar – Gujarat’s Balmiki Kids Face Daily Humiliations in School and Village (Outlook India, 2009, News)
- Parliamentarians in India Raise Their Voices for the Eradication of Manual Scavenging (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Supreme Court Ruling Brings India a Step Closer to Ending Manual Scavenging (IDSN, 2009, News)
- Young Dalit Women Exploited in Indian Garment (SOMO/ICN, 2012, Press)
- On the Right Track – SR on Water: Good Practices In Realising the Rights to Water And Sanitation (OHCHR, 2012, Publication)
- A Blot Upon the Nation (IDSN, 2012, News)
- ‘Manual Scavenging Still Going On In MP’ (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Census 2011 Belies Gujarat’s Claims, 2,500 Households Still Use Manual Scavenging (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Manual Scavenging Refuses to Die in UP (IDSN, 2012, News)
- National Conference on “Promotion of Equality at Work in India: Manual Scavenging Practices” (IDSN, 2012, News)
- National Conference On Elimination of Manual Scavenging (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Saga of ‘Maid in India’ (IDSN, 2012, News)
