IDSN UN side-event calls for more action to combat caste and gender-based slavery
Invitation to UN HRC29 side-event on caste and gender-based forced and bonded Labour
IDSN urges agencies to counter caste discrimination in aid delivery after Nepal earthquake
Exclusion of Dalit rights defenders from UN featured in handbook on NGO access
UK: political parties take a stand on caste
US urged to actively support IDSN’s application for UN consultative status
India’s blocking of IDSN’s UN consultative status continues
World Bank President and UN Secretary-General: Ending India’s caste-based exclusion is key to shared prosperity
Speaking at the Indian Council of World Affairs UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon stressed the need for inclusive growth for shared prosperity saying that, “millions of Dalits, Tribals and others still face discrimination, especially the women and girls.” On a visit to Gujarat the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, similarly cautioned that while India was an accelerating economy, “Indian society has an enduring exclusion that is based, among other things, on caste identities. This bias can impede shared prosperity, serving as a basis for discrimination in many spheres, including in employment and other markets, as well as in public services.”
India called out at UN General Assembly for blocking IDSN’s UN consultative status
At the UN General Assembly meeting on the 28th October, The UN Special Rapporteur on the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, criticised India for arbitrarily blocking the International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) from obtaining UN consultative status calling it “clearly unacceptable, wrong and unfair.”