This publication from Asia Dalit Rights Forum explores the intricate interplay between the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, societal resilience, and the national status of marginalized communities facing discrimination based on work and descent in Bangladesh.
Marginalisation drives the modern day slavery within Bangladesh’s tea industry where Dalit and tribal workers have no alternative to working under highly exploitative conditions. āBangabandhu provided the tea workers rights to vote, citizenship, and it cannot be that they remain landless. I will definitely provide them the land rights.ā Thus spoke the Prime Minister of…
Crimes against Dalit people rose by 177.6 per cent and crimes against people from tribal communities rose 111.2 per cent between 1991 and 2021. Dalits and Adivasis together account for almost 32 per cent of all prisoners in Indian jails. How are Institutional discrimination and social exclusion related to crime? Data points to a vast…
An AFP report mentioned how public bodies specifically reserve menial cleaning jobs for ānon-Muslimsā. These are jobs for Christians and Hindus. On April 19, the Municipal Corporation of Sialkot showcased sanitation workers utilizing machines to clear obstructed sewage. It was a public relations exercise to combat a stinging AFP report earlier in the month showcasing…
Romani children are also routinely being assessed as having āmild mental disabilitiesā and sent to special schools where the quality of education is inferior, a joint Amnesty and ERRC statement said. The European Commission on April 19 brought Slovakia, an EU Member State, to the European Court of Justice for violating the Race Equality Directive…
