Advancing GENDER EQUALITY by Recognizing Women Discriminated on Work and Descent at CSW70

The Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (GFOD) has released a powerful Call to Action: Advancing Gender Equality by Recognizing Women Discriminated on Work and Descent at CSW70. This paper highlights the persistent exclusion of Dalit, Roma, Burakumin, Haratin, Quilombola, Palenque, and other descent-based communities from global gender equality frameworks. It underscores…

Centring Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD) Women in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (GFoD) has submitted a powerful input to the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, exposing how digitalization and AI are deepening the marginalization of CDWD women—particularly Dalit, Roma, Quilombola, Haratine, Osu, and other historically oppressed communities. The document shows how limited digital access,…

Beyond the Margins: A CDWD Youth Vision for a Post-Doha Declaration World

For centuries and ages, Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD) have lived at the harshest edges of social and economic exclusion. Yet across regions from Dalit and Burakumin communities in South Asia to Roma settlements in Europe, from Haratin groups in Mauritania to Palenque and Quilombola and Palenque territories in Latin America  youth are…

From Recognition to Real Change: CDWD Advocates Call for Urgent Action to Implement ACHPR Resolution 619

From Recognition to Real Change: CDWD Advocates Call for Urgent Action to Implement ACHPR Resolution 619

At the ongoing session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul, The Gambia, experts representing the Global Forum on Discrimination (GFoD) delivered powerful interventions on behalf of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD), urging African governments and regional institutions to move beyond symbolic recognition and ensure tangible protection of…

GFoD Calls for Urgent Global Action to End Discrimination Against Women from CDWD Communities

The Global Forum of Communities Discriminated Based on Work and Descent (GFoD), hosted by The Inclusivity Project, has submitted a statement to the 2026 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), urging immediate action to address the deep-seated injustices faced by women and girls from CDWD (Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent) backgrounds. The submission…