When a Roma speaks at UN, the world listens: Interview with Roma academic-activist Simona Torotcoi

When a Roma speaks at UN, the world listens: Interview with Roma academic-activist Simona Torotcoi

In July 2024, Simona Torotcoi addressed the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, a subdivision of both the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Economic and Social Council, responsible for the entire organisation’s policy on sustainable development. Simona, a Roma from Romania and currently working with the ERGO Network, is a part of…

India: Dalit Children go Missing, Get Trafficked or Work for a Living

India: Dalit Children go Missing, Get Trafficked or Work for a Living

About 10.1 million children aged between 5 to 14 work in India. Recent deaths in factories in Delhi, home to the country’s capital city points to the enslavement of children in risky factories. A total of 59,262 children were reported to go missing in India in 2020, according to the National Crime Records Bureau’s ‘Crime…

UN Mechanisms and Caste – Discrimination Based on Work and Descent

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…

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

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…