UN India Documentation
- Report to the SP on violence against women and girls in sports (GFoD Submission April 2024)
- Advocating for equality: IDSN delegation addresses challenges faced by Dalits at key UN Forums (IDSN news)
- Caste and gender-based violence addressed at IDSN’s first UN side-event (News 2023)
- India rights review: Action on caste discrimination recommended by States across three continents (IDSN News)
- Dalit voices heard at the UN Forum on Minority Issues (IDSN News)
- Young Dalit leaders speak out at UN Business and Human Rights Forum (IDSN News)
- Report of the Working group on the UPR India 4th cycle 2022
- Supported and noted recommendations from the Universal Periodic Review India 2023
- UPR India 4th Cycle Recommendations
- Contemporary forms of slavery affecting persons belonging to ethnic, religious and linguistic minority communities Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, Tomoya Obokata
- Speaking out against caste discrimination at the Women at Work Conference – International Dalit Solidarity Network
- Dalit rights raised at the pre-session for the UN rights review of India – International Dalit Solidarity Network
- Dalit woman appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Racism – International Dalit Solidarity Network
- Child Labour, Caste Discrimination Closely Interlinked In India: UN Report (NDTV)
- Indigenous Peoples and the right to freedom of religion or belief
- EU meeting with Ahmed Shaheed, the current UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief – International Dalit Solidarity Network
- UPR India 4th Cycle 2022
- Joint submission to the CERD Committee on the right to health – International Dalit Solidarity Network
- IDSN 2022 submission to the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of Slavery
- In India, 5 out of 6 multidimensionally poor are from lower tribes or castes: UN report | India News – Times of India
- Recommendations for the 48 th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council (13 September – 8 October 2021)
- India must consider untouchability as a form of racism: Civil society tells UN panel
- India’s New IT Rules Do Not Conform With International Human Rights Norms : UN Special Rapporteurs
- India: Protect Rights, Dignity Amid Covid-19 Crisis | Human Rights Watch
- Indian authorities continue to stifle dissent and persecute activists despite pandemic surge – CIVICUS – Tracking conditions for citizen action
- UN Human Rights Office Urges Release of Bhima Koregaon Activists ‘at the Very Least on Bail’
- Joint submission to the call for input from the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association for his report to be presented at the 50th session of the Human Rights Council
- Contribution to The Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD) – 2021
- Recommendations for the 44 th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council (30 June – 17 July 2020)
- Recommendations for the 43rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council (24 February – 20 March 2020)
- UN experts raise concern over caste-based slavery (IDSN News)
- Caste-hate speech highlighted at the 2020 UN Minority Forum (IDSN News)
- Dalit Voices (Episodes 1-15)
- Contemporary Slavery & Racial Discrimination: Civil Society Support to Survivors during the Pandemic – YouTube
- Why a 1995 Beijing Conference Was Significant for the Dalit Women’s Movement (The Wire)
- Dalit women activists highlight caste and gender discrimination at UN hearing (IDSN News)
- IDSN Annual Report 2019-2020
- Caste extracts from: Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers: An Initial Assessment.” By World Bank, ILO, WaterAid, and WHO – 2019
- In Conversation With Abirami Jotheeswaran: Dalit Human Rights Activist (Feminism in India)
- IDSN submission on India to the UN Human Rights Committee 2019
- “Today, we are not here only to speak of our plight. We are also agents of change”, says Ruth Manorama at the UN Human Rights Council (IDSN News)
- Take Five: “We have started realizing that we are seeking nothing more than our due share of services and opportunities” (UN Women)
- Statement by Mr. Leo Heller, Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation at the 39th Session of the Human Rights Council (OHCHR)
- Women subjected to caste-based attacks in India call on the UN to act (IDSN)
- Dalit women’s rights activists to present accounts of caste violence at UNHRC (The Indian Express)
- Discrimination against Dalits, Muslims in India deeply disturbing, says UN human rights chief
- UN experts condemn deadly police response to protest against copper smelting plant in India, call for probe (OHCHR)
- UN Report: Average Dalit woman dies 14.6 years younger than women from dominant castes
- Caste-based slavery pg. 15 article in UN Slavery Fund publication
- Young Dalit activists speak out at the UN Minority Forum on youth and inclusion
UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW
India was first reviewed by the UPR mechanism of the Human Rights Council in 2008, and for the second time in May 2012. Caste discrimination figured prominently in both reviews.
UN TREATY BODIES
The issue of caste discrimination in India has been addressed by several UN treaty bodies, including the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1996, 2000 and 2007), the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2008), the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (2000, 2007), and the Committee on the Rights of the Child (2000, 2004).
UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES
- Read about UN Special Rapporteurs’ visits to India (of particular relevance)
- See status of requests for country visits (OHCHR website)
- How to submit a complaint to UN Special Procedures
- Read more about the UN Special Procedures and caste discrimination
