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Cleaning human waste: manual scavenging, caste, and discrimination in India
Human Rights Watch, 2014The practice of manually cleaning excrement from private and public dry toilets and open drains persists in several parts of South Asia. Manual scavengers are usually from caste groups customarily relegated to the bottom of the caste hierarchy and confined to livelihood tasks viewed as deplorable or deemed too menial by higher caste groups.DocumentInnocence lost: child marriage in a global context, with a focus on Malawi
KidsRights Foundation, 2014Malawi has the eighth highest rate of child marriage in the world, with over half of girls marrying under the age of 18. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, with 61% of the population living below the poverty line.DocumentMinors not miners: hazardous child labour, with a focus on gold mining in Burkina Faso
KidsRights Foundation, 2014An estimated 115 million children from 5 to 17 years old work in hazardous conditions across the world. The ILO estimates that some 22,000 children are killed at work every year. Those who survive can develop health problems later in life due to poor working conditions while their bodies and minds are still growing and developing.DocumentBehind closed doors: child domestic labour, with a focus on the Kamlari system in Nepal
KidsRights Foundation, 2014In 2000, Nepal abolished the Kamaiya system of bonded agricultural labour, where families of the low-status Tharu tribe would be put to work to pay the never-ending interest on historical debts.DocumentGlobal AgeWatch Index 2015: insight report
HelpAge International, 2015The Global AgeWatch Index assesses the factors determining the social and economic wellbeing of older people around the world. As well as global analysis, this year the Index is focusing on the regions, hearing from older people themselves and looking at the widely varying geographic trends. It also includes data on ageing in the BRICS countries.OrganisationKidsRights Foundation
KidsRights promotes the wellbeing of very vulnerable children across the world and advocates the realisation of their rights.DocumentNot so sweet, hazardous child labour, with a focus on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast
KidsRights Foundation, 2014Ivory Coast now accounts for 35% of the world’s cocoa production. Around 900,000 farmers grow the bean, and 3.5 million people depend on it for their livelihoods. The most recent data shows that an estimated 819,921 children worked in the 2008/2009 harvest season.DocumentDalits and the post 2015 develoment agenda: addressing the hidden apartheid of millions will be key to the success of the SDGs
Asia Dalit Rights Forum, 2015The world over it has been clearly demonstrated that economic progress and stages of development have little impact on the continuum of inequalities. Consequently, Dalits, constituting 260 million people worldwide with the majority residing in South Asia, have fallen off the wagon of progress.OrganisationAsia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)
Asian Dalit Rights Forum as a collective of Dalit rights activists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.DocumentJustice under trial: caste discrimination in access to justice before special courts
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, 2014The experiences of one-and-a-half decades of monitoring and intervening in cases of atrocities have clearly shown the large hurdles that Dalit and Adivasi victims/survivors of atrocities face in the process of seeking legal justice.Pages