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…

Input for the EU Anti-Racism Strategy: Addressing Discrimination Based onWork and Descent in Europe

Discrimination based on work and descent remains a largely unaddressed form of structural racism in Europe, disproportionately affecting Roma, Dalit, Haratine, and other caste-like communities who face exclusion rooted in inherited status, ancestral occupation, and caste-based hierarchies. The input highlights how these groups continue to experience segregation, barriers to education, housing and employment, political underrepresentation,…

From Recognition to Real Change: Advancing Equality for CDWD in Africa

Halimatou Ceesey, Senior Rights Expert at the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (GFoD), delivered a powerful address at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul. She welcomed the adoption of Resolution 619, a landmark recognition of caste-based discrimination across Africa, but emphasized that acknowledgment must be matched with…

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…