Hundreds of thousands of formerly enslaved people in and from Africa can trace back their modern forms of slavery and discrimination – to the caste-based slavery of the past, and the discrimination associated with the caste-based slavery of their ancestors.
Commissioner Bouba of the Cameroon National Human Rights Commission releasing the Cameroon CDWD REPORT at the Commission Headquarter in Yavounde, Cameroon.
Traditional and modern forms of slavery and slavery-like practices remain prevalent in Cameroon, despite its criminalisation in its Penal Code, the country report of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent in Cameroon and Status of Modern Slavery has revealed. This report, which was launched on November 3 is informed by research on discriminated communities on…
Africa has a long-standing history of slavery and slavery practices through domestic slavery, which intensified extensively through the trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Today, hundreds of thousands of formerly enslaved people in and from Africa can trace back their modern forms of slavery and discrimination – to the caste-based slavery of the…
This declaration is a powerful global call to action, urging the eradication of discrimination based on work and descent and the upholding of human dignity and equality worldwide, emphasizing the need for collective efforts and systemic change.
This declaration represents a unified commitment to address discrimination based on work and descent, untouchability, contemporary forms of slavery, and analogous forms of discrimination.
Marginalisation drives the modern day slavery within Bangladesh’s tea industry where Dalit and tribal workers have no alternative to working under highly exploitative conditions. “Bangabandhu provided the tea workers rights to vote, citizenship, and it cannot be that they remain landless. I will definitely provide them the land rights.” Thus spoke the Prime Minister of…
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…
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…
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…
