Dakar Draft Declaration
This declaration represents a unified commitment to address discrimination based on work and descent, untouchability, contemporary forms of slavery, and analogous forms of discrimination.
Discrimination Based on Work and Descent and Untouchability: Global Profile and a Common Framework to Eliminate the Practice
This report provides a common framework emphasizing the need for concerted efforts to eradicate the practice of discrimination based on work and descent worldwide.
Stories Right to Freedom from Segregation Right to Livelihood and Social Security SDG Goal 10 - Reduced Inequalities SDG Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
Pakistan: Government Scrambles to Cover up an Ugly Story on Manual Sewage Workers
An AFP report mentioned how public bodies specifically reserve menial cleaning jobs for “non-Muslims”. These are jobs for Christians and Hindus. On April 19, the Municipal Corporation of Sialkot showcased sanitation workers utilizing machines to clear obstructed sewage. It was a public relations exercise to combat a stinging AFP report earlier in the month showcasing…
Stories Right to Education Right to Fair Access to Justice SDG Goal 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
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 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…
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…
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…
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…