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Annual Report

IDSN Annual Report 2018

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

Report - Slavery/Gender

Caste & Gender-Based Forced & Bonded Labour - UN 2015 Side-event

Rehabilitating Former Manual Scavengers

UN India brief on manual scavenging in India.

“They Say We’re Dirty”

India’s marginalized denied education Dalits, Adivasis and Muslims are most at risk of dropping out of school.

Rights within reach

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

Slavery and Child Labor in India's Hand-Made Carpet Sector

The report is the largest single first-hand study of slavery and child labor conducted to date.

Cleaning human waste

“Manual Scavenging,” Caste, and Discrimination in India

India Exclusion Report 2013-14 – Centre for Equity Studies

The report has hundreds of references to caste-based exclusion in all aspects of life, especially highlighting Dalit women.

Inclusive Vulnerability Mapping & Monitoring of Post Disaster Response

Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, was released by Columbia University Press in October 2012.

Claiming Justice

The report analyzes over 400 atrocity cases, with 20 in-depth case studies covering atrocities such as murder, rape, mass attack, and land grabbing.

Violence against Dalit women (AIDMAM, 2012, Publication)

Violence against Dalit women (AIDMAM, 2012, Publication)

Justice Under Trial

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.

Access to Health Care and Patterns of Discrimination

A Study of Dalit Children in Selected Villages of Gujarat and Rajasthan (IIDS/UNICEF, 2010, Publication)

Dalit Rights are Human Rights (One World Action/BDERM, 2010, Publication) (2010)

Dalit Rights are Human Rights (One World Action/BDERM, 2010, Publication) (2010)

Caste Discrimination and Harassment in Great Britain

The Government-commissioned research into the prevalence of caste prejudice and discrimination undertaken by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

Understanding 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)

Unequal by Law, Unequal by Caste

Unequal by Law, Unequal by Caste: the "Untouchable" Condition in Critical Race Perspective (CHRGJ, 2008, Publication)

Hidden Apartheid

Hidden Apartheid was produced as a “shadow report” to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).