The 68th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) – the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment – took place from 11 – 22 March under the priority theme
Understanding the many faces of poverty Discrimination based on work and descent (DWD) is the UN terminology used in international contexts to describe the systemic marginalization experienced by certain communities, like Roma in Europe, Dalits in Asia, Burakumin in Japan, Haratin in Africa, and Quilombola in Brazil, due to their caste or similar inherited forms…
The report portrays the situation of CDWD at a glance in Bangladesh and the response of state, national, and international mechanisms to safeguard their rights.
Like other states in South Asia, CDWD in Nepal are often faced with intergenerational, discrimination, segregation
Asia has the largest number of DWD communities globally. The Asian continent accounts for more than three-quarters of the total number of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD) in the world. The report consolidates detailed information, analysis, and viewpoints currently available on the rights and entitlements of CDWD.
