This report presents the initial findings from an immediate needs assessment of the affected Dalit communities in Nepal following the devastating earthquake of 2015, shedding light on their wait for justice and recovery.
Nepal’s benchmarking report on the Draft UN Principles and Guidelines on the Elimination of (Caste) Discrimination Based on Work and Descent, offering valuable insights and recommendations to strengthen implementation efforts and promote social justice.
A critical examination of the impact and resilience of Dalit communities in Nepal amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This policy brief sheds light on the unique challenges the Dalits of Nepal face and provides an insightful analysis for targeted interventions.
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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…