Youth at the Forefront: Leveraging Science and Social Inclusion for Sustainable Development” SIDE EVENTS AT THE 2025 ECOSOC YOUTH FORUM Background: Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD) face systemic exclusion, economic marginalization, and barriers to decent work (SDG 8). Science, technology, and innovation have the potential to break these cycles of discrimination by creating...

HEAR US NOW: Advancing Inclusion and Justice: Empowering Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD) and other marginalised communities, Including Non-Binary Individuals, in SDG 16 and SDG 17 Youth at the Forefront: Leveraging Science and Social Inclusion for Sustainable Development  SIDE EVENTS AT THE 2025 ECOSOC YOUTH FORUM 1. Background Communities Discriminated on Work and...

Join us for a Europe-wide virtual event on Roma youth and Sustainable Development Goals! Roma Youth at the Forefront: Promoting Rights, Inclusion, and Equality through the SDGs Co-organized by: GFoD, ERGO Network, ternYpe, and UNMGCY Date: 28 June Time: 13:00 CET/16:30 IST/11:00 GMT Virtual Event – Register here:  https://theinclusivityproject-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/wo9dXKvkQEmX0bxPyLw25g Across Europe and beyond, Roma youth are...

Governments and international partners must prioritize social protection systems that are inclusive, accountable, and rooted in human rights. This panel explores how participatory frameworks, budget justice, and community-led action can help dismantle systemic discrimination—including discrimination based on work and descent (DWD)—and achieve equitable development. 🤝 Co-organized by: The Inclusivity Project (TIP), International Budget Partnership, Eurodad,...

#HEARUSNOW  Background:As the WSSD-2 convenes, this Solutions Session will spotlight community-led and multi-stakeholder initiatives addressing those most affected by social crises. Youth groups, stakeholders, IGOs, and Member States will present case studies/solutions focused on the contexts of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD) with intersections to Indigenous Peoples, and Migrants/Refugees under the theme of...

Discrimination based on Work and Descent (DWD) affects over 270 million people globally, often manifesting as social exclusion based on inherited status, practices of untouchability, and notions of "purity and pollution". When groups face extreme forms of discrimination in accessing employment, education, healthcare, and housing, their capacity to contribute to national development is severely curtailed....

The Asia Dalit Rights Forum, in collaboration with the The Inclusivity Project, Feminist Dalit Organisation (FEDO Nepal), and Dalit Women Forum/Nagorik Uddyog, will host an in-person parallel event during CSW70. This event addresses the systemic barriers that prevent Dalit, Roma, Quilombola, and Palenque women — particularly those from communities discriminated on work and descent (CDWD)...

Across the world, women from communities discriminated on work and descent (CDWD)—including Dalit, Quilombola, Haratine, and Roma women—continue to face extreme, multidimensional, and often invisible forms of gender-based violence. Despite decades of international commitments, the violence they face remains under-reported, under-researched, and absent from global policy dialogues. The new UN Women Policy Paper on Women...

Gender discrimination remains deeply rooted in many societies and is often experienced through intersectional forms of inequality shaped by factors such as descent, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and digital access. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded across sectors, these intersecting inequalities risk being replicated and amplified through algorithmic systems. Tools like risk prediction algorithms, forecasting-based...