Caste Discrimination - How to Reduce and Eliminate Discrimination

In the last instalment of the Caste discrimination series, we spoke to Meena about what needs to be done and by whom in order to reduce and eventually eliminate this type of discrimination.

Is there anything that individuals could do to contribute to the reduction of caste discrimination?

“RAISE AWARENESS

Inform yourself about caste discrimination and the human rights problems that stem from it. Make use of the resources on our website. If you travel to caste-affected countries, find out where caste-affected communities live and visit them.

Send the link of this website to a friend and ask them to watch the short film ‘I’m Dalit, how are you?’.

Include an article about caste in your organisation’s newsletter.

IDSN/DSNUK can help in providing a speaker about caste, all of our publications are on our webpages. DSN UK’s publications are free and can be ordered from our ‘Contact’ address.

Link your website to IDSN/DSN-UK.

For more actions to be taken at the international level please click here.

Distribute information about IDSN/DSN-UK and caste at your local library, school, university, community centre or office. We have a leaflet below that gives a brief introduction to caste-based discrimination, and we are happy to send you copies on request of you can download it by clicking on the picture.

ACTIVISTS

The elimination of caste discrimination requires action and interventions by civil society actors across the world. As an activist you can help by showing solidarity, raising awareness and by putting pressure on the decision makers that are or should be accountable to you.

INFORM YOURSELF

Increase your own knowledge and understanding about caste-based discrimination through the resources on our website.

GET INVOLVED 

Raise awareness about global caste discrimination – if possible, jointly with others. Engage your parliamentarians and ask them what they do to eliminate caste discrimination.”

Which bodies would you call on to take action against this problem and why?

“IDSN regularly appeals to the international organisations the United Nations, European Union and International Labour Organisation to speak out against caste discrimination while our members work on a bottom-up approach to lobby local government, local communities, companies that have operations in caste affected countries and anyone else who may come in contact with this unequal system.”

By Alexandra Bjorustad