Press Clippings - Manual Scavenging
Press Clippings - Manual Scavenging
- It is time to talk about caste in Pakistan and Pakistani diaspora | Pakistan News | Al Jazeera
- India’s Sanitation Workers Seek Immediate Help From The Government | Amnesty International India
- Why a 1995 Beijing Conference Was Significant for the Dalit Women’s Movement (The Wire)
- ‘We will bring change’: the Indian band shaking a cruel caste system (The Guardian)
- Delhi’s shame: The complete failure of rehabilitation of the manual scavengers (Dalit Camera)
- Sewer Cleaners Wanted in Pakistan: Only Christians Need Apply (The New York Times)
- COVID-19 poses new risks to India’s enslaved waste pickers (Thomson Reuters)
- In Conversation With Bezwada Wilson: The Fight Against Manual Scavenging (Feminism in India)
- Dalit problems will not be solved by avoiding the rehabilitation issue (Justice News)
- ‘Society Needs Us, But Only For Cleaning Others’ Dirt’ (The Wire)
- India Should Recognise That Manual Scavenging Is Akin to Slavery (TheWire)
- Sanitation workers: Deaths of five men cleaning sewer are a blot on India’s capital
- The 7 National Surveys That Counted Manual Scavengers Thus Far And Their Varied Numbers (The Wire)
- Discrimination: Soldier funeral reveals India outsize outcaste problem (IANS, 2016)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Manual scavengers: fresh survey ordered (The Hindu)
- From dirty drains to smart cabs: 1,150 women from manual scavenger families to train as Uber and Meru drivers(Daily Mail Online)
- Social Justice Minister answers how big is the challenge of manual scavenging (India Today)
- Scraping dry toilets with their bare hands: Shocking survey shows 1.56 lakh rural households ignore ban on manual scavenging (Daily Mail Online)
- Two suffocate to death in Bengaluru manhole (Zee News)
- Manual scavenging still a reality: Startling facts emerge from census (The Hindu)
- With eye on Dalit vote, Modi calls for end to manual scavenging (The Times of India)
- Combatting the Vicious Circle of Child Rights Violation (The New Indian Express)
- In India, a Broken System Leaves a ‘Broken’ People Powerless (Inter Press Service)
- Video: Manual Scavenging: Picking Up Human Waste In India (Al Jazeera)
- Only few states providing information on manual scavenging: Gehlot (Zee News)
- Jan Sahas receives the Star Impact Award 2014 for its years’ efforts for eradication of Manual Scavenging and combating malnutrition among Dalit community in India (Pro Poor)
- India’s ‘Manual Scavengers’ Rise Up Against Caste Discrimination (IPS)
- Modi aims to shake up sanitation with Clean India drive (Reuters)
- Need to clean our biases first, then our streets (Hindustan Times)
- Dalit Stops Cleaning Dry Toilets, Becomes Leader (Womens eNews)
- India’s ‘untouchables’ offered opportunity of a better life (The Guardian)
- Wateraid statement on manual scavenging 2014
- Forced to Clean Human Waste in India (Video – Human Rights Watch)
- ‘If you don’t send your women to clean our toilets, we will beat them up’ (The Hindu)
- Low-caste Indians forced into ‘dirty’ jobs (ABC News)
- India lower caste still removing human waste (Al Jazeera)
- ‘Untouchables’ Still Pressed to Work Disposing Human Waste (Wall Street Journal)
- Low-caste Indians still forced to clean human waste: rights group (AFP)
- HRW: India′s ′untouchables′ still pressed to clean human excrement (Deutsche Welle)
- Group decries India’s reliance on waste cleaners (AP)
- India’s low castes still forced to clean human excreta, says HRW (Reuters)
- In pictures: India’s ‘untouchable’ scavengers (BBC)
- Human Rights Watch 2014 Manual Scavenging Report – Collation of key global press clippings
- 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
- INDIA: National shame (Asian Human Rights Commission)
- India: Democracy in a Gutter, Literally. (Asian Human Rights Commission)
- 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)
- 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)
- IDSN: Bollywood star denounces caste discrimination (IDSN, 2012, News)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
