Access to Healthcare
A commentary followed by recommendations for equitable healthcare solutions on access to healthcare, COVID-19, and the specific challenges encountered by CDWD (Dalits).
A commentary followed by recommendations for equitable healthcare solutions on access to healthcare, COVID-19, and the specific challenges encountered by CDWD (Dalits).
Examining the critical nexus of access to justice, the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges faced by CDWD (Dalits), this policy brief presents key recommendations for equitable solutions.
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. “Bangabandhu provided the tea workers rights to vote, citizenship, and it cannot be that they remain landless. I will definitely provide them the land rights.” 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…