UN Statements & Reports SDG Goal 1 - No Poverty SDG Goal 10 - Reduced Inequalities SDG Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions SDG Goal 4 – Quality Education SDG Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

SDG 10.2 Report – Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with its focus Ensuring No One is Left Behind in the development planning and implementation has captured and gravitated the world attention. SDGs talks about people-centric approach and principles of accountability, transparency and participation, which ensures this developmental methodology as a near perfect model for holistic development.Additionally, theoretically, SDGs are especially…

Publications Right to Education Right to Fair Access to Justice Right to Livelihood and Social Security SDG Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Dalit Women in South Asia – Access to Economic Rights Focus on Land Higher Education and Employable Skills for Livelihood

This study attempts to draw attention to the current existing policies on land, higher educationand skill development for employment. The study is carried out in 4 South Asian countries ofBangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. We have under taken this study to create an evidencebase on the existing gaps in policy and budgetary frameworks on…

Publications Right to Fair Access to Justice SDG Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Annihilate Caste and Structural Inequalities in Implementing the 2030 Agenda

This report provides systemic understanding of hidden apartheid still under represented and widely practiced. The comprehensive study was prepared by Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF) in association with Regions Refocus 2015 and Asia Parliamentarians Forum on Dalit Concerns (APFDC). Discrimination based on Work and Descent (caste) has been referenced as an important variable of exclusion…

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UN Mechanisms and Caste – Discrimination Based on Work and Descent

This report provides systemic understanding of hidden apartheid still under represented and widely practiced. The comprehensive study was prepared by Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF) in association with Regions Refocus 2015 and Asia Parliamentarians Forum on Dalit Concerns (APFDC). As a background document for the series of events “Annihilate Caste and Structural Inequalities inImplementing the…

Publications Right to Fair Access to Justice SDG Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Towards a Unifying Global Identity – A Framework on Discrimination Based on Work and Descent Including Caste

The handbook highlights discrimination based on work and descent (DWD), which affects over 260 million people across the globe today. DWD is the term used to address various forms of discrimination, including caste-, work- and birth-based discrimination. While DWD is often presumed to be limited to the South Asian continent, it is a global phenomenon,…

Publications Right to Fair Access to Justice SDG Goal 1 - No Poverty SDG Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions SDG Goal 4 – Quality Education SDG Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Discrimination Based on Work and Descent and Untouchability – Global Profile and a Common Framework to Eliminate the Practice

This report speaks to a wide range of audiences such human rights defenders, activists, community leaders and people alike who have been fighting for the rights of the discriminated communities to understand and explore the similarities in the forms of discrimination existing in Africa, Asia, Europe, UK and Latin America. The primary objective of the…

Publications Right to Fair Access to Justice SDG Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Impact and Resilience in COVID-19 Pandemic – Analysis of Dalit Communities in Nepal

The COVID-19 pandemic had tremendously shifted the life in the world as we know it. Whileit was found first in Wuhan province of China, it has effected all the countries around the worldand Nepal is not an exception. On the day of revision of this report 2025 deaths have occurredand 270,275 people have been infected…

Publications Right to Fair Access to Justice SDG Goal 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions SDG Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent in Modern Slavery – A Global Phenomenon

This research project, comprising two studies and commissioned by the Asia Dalit Rights Forum to explore and examine of the manifestations of modern slavery in its varied forms prevalent among the communities discriminated on work and descent (CDWDs), has looked at the issue in its South Asian as well as global dimensions as evidenced in…