Join us online or in Geneva for our official side event during the 2023 UN Forum on Minority Issues! With a high profile panel, this event will focus on building on regional recognition towards a resolution on the rights of communities discriminated on work and descent. Show your support and follow the event remotely at...

Discrimination based on Work and Descent (DWD) affects more than 270 million people worldwide, with about 15 million Roma and other communities DWD diaspora in Europe, such as Dalits and Haratins. CDWD are regarded as the most vulnerable groups in terms of social, economic, and political development. They experience intersectional discrimination and oppression because of...

Official side event during the CSW68 Forum 11 - 22 March 2024      Registration link : https://eu.jotform.com/form/240416061960046 In the context of the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN in New York alongside UN Woman, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations...

Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (GFoD), along with partner entities:  European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network (ERGO),  Feminist Collective of Romani Gender Experts, and Romalitico - Institute for Research and Policy Analysis organise a side event focusing on addressing the intersectionality of discrimination, marginalization and poverty faced by women from Communities Discriminated on Work and...

We are living in times of great turmoil, with protracted conflict, the climate crisis and growing inequalities present in the world today. Amidst this growing crisis, state and non-state actors have a very critical role to play in upholding the human rights of communities and individuals and ensuring respect of global standards. In this context,...

GFoD and partners are pleased to invite you to a roundtable discussion on the international movement of communities discriminated on work and descent (CDWD). This important alliance of groups from Africa, Europe, Latin America and South Asia, is forging new pathways for justice at the international level to ensure the voices of CDWD are recognised...

For registration : https://theinclusivityproject-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdO-srzIsEtUCr_6DcIxAGIm2Tj2kCt3J The Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN in New York together with the Permanent Mission of North Macedonia, Permanent Mission of Canada (TBC) and the Permanent Missions of Austria, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Ivory Coast, Gambia (TBC) and UN Women (Racial Justice) are delighted to co-organize a HLPF 2024 side event...

Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD), including but not limited to Dalit, Roma, Quilombola, and Haratine communities, face systemic discrimination and marginalization across the world. CDWD are the people directly affected by Discrimination based on Work and Descent (DWD). They continue to face extreme forms of isolation and discrimination, which acts as an obstacle...

2024 High-Level Political Forum  LGBTI Stakeholder Group and the Stakeholder Group of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent. The LGBTI Stakeholder Group and the Stakeholder Group of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (SG-CDWD),   invite you to a joint side event on the margins of the annual High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).  Around the...

Reviewing 30 Years of Beijing Commitments to Accelerate Gender Equality in the ECE Region Background and Rationale Discrimination Based on Work and Descent (DWD) affects more than 270 million people worldwide, with about 15 million Roma and other diaspora communities in Europe, such as Dalits and Haratins. CDWD are regarded as the most vulnerable groups...

Across the globe, almost 270 million people are discriminated against, based on their present or ancestral occupation, descent or inherited status, such as caste. Collectively, they are known as Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent .They include Dalits in South Asia; Burakumin in Japan; Roma in Europe, Haratine, Osu and other communities in West Africa;...