IDSN facilitates the submission of shadow reports and supports joint NGO statements to several UN human rights bodies, including the Human Rights Council, UPR, UN treaty bodies, Special Rapporteurs and the Durban Review Conference.
Latest caste & UN documentation links
- IDSN delegation highlights urgent concerns ahead of Nepal’s 2026 UN rights review (IDSN News)
- IDSN at the Business and Human Rights Forum: Advancing caste-responsive due diligence (IDSN News)
- IDSN highlights milestone and the need to address caste discrimination at ICERD 60th Anniversary (IDSN News)
- UN Minority Forum: Dalit activists call for action on caste-based violence, intersectional discrimination, shrinking civic space and labour rights (IDSN News)
- Factsheet on SMART recommendations to address descent and caste-based discrimination – Amnesty International
- UN Women policy paper Women Belonging to Communities Discriminated Against Based on Work and Descent (July 2025)
- Dalit leader urges action to address the situation of Dalit women at UN CEDAW Review of Nepal (IDSN News)
- UN report on intersectionality by the Special Rapporteur on Racism 2025
- UN report on intersectionality calls for action on caste and gender justice (IDSN News)
- Joint UPR Nepal 2025 submission report
- IDSN input on the Nexus Between Gender Equality and the Right to Development to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development
- IDSN input on the situation of human rights defenders working on climate change and a just transition for the UN SR on human rights defenders
- IDSN input to the Secretary General Minorities Report 2025: Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
- IDSN input on the Worst Forms of Child Labour for UN SR Slavery 2025 report
- IDSN Submission to UN SR Racism 2025 report
- IDSN submission to 2025 report of the SR Minority issues
- Child labour in the primary production of sugarcane (ILO)
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Safety and Health Fact Sheet Hazardous Child Labour in Agriculture – Cotton (ILO, 2025)
- IDSN’s Recommendations for the 58th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council (24th February – 4th April 2025)
- Joint Shadow Report on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women regarding Dalit women and girls in Nepal (2025 Full Report)
- SUMMARY: Joint Shadow Report on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women regarding Dalit women and girls in Nepal (January 2025)
- Report to the SP on violence against women and girls in sports (GFoD Submission April 2024)
- Joint Submission to the UN CEDAW 2024 – Caste and Gender Justice in Nepal
- UN rights review calls for stronger anti-discrimination measures in Bangladesh (IDSN News – 2024)
- PROTECTING MINORITY RIGHTS: A Practical Guide to Developing Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Legislation (OHCHR and Equal Rights Trust)
- Pakistan through Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent Lens (GFOD Report
- Advocating for equality: IDSN delegation addresses challenges faced by Dalits at key UN Forums (IDSN news)
- Addressing the situation of Dalits in Bangladesh at the UN UPR pre-session (IDSN News)
- Joint NGO submission related to the review of Bangladesh for the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review 2023 – The Situation of Dalits in Bangladesh
- Recommendations for the 53rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council (19 June – 14 July 2023)
Since 2023 the UN has created a system where you can search for caste or Dalits in all UN documentation here: https://documents.un.org/ We therefore refer to this for references going forward.
Up to January 2022 the outcomes were monitored and documented by IDSN and compiled in the comprehensive compilation of how caste discrimination and similar forms of discrimination based on work and descent have been addressed by the UN treaty bodies, Universal Periodic Review, and the Special Procedures
IDSN compilation:
