Dear All
Jai Bhim and wish you a happy and successful New Year 2006. This is to bring to your kind information that NCDHR is preparing a study on the situation of Dalits in India on different issues affecting Dalit's life. This report would be submitted to the Special Rapporteurs appointed by the UN Commission on Human Rights in the month of March this year.
We seek your support in this exercise and request you to send any report/study which you have done in recent times regarding the situation of Dalits in your state. We assure you that we would acknowledge your contribution in this report. Any study undertaken by you and your organization concerning some/any of the areas we have identified for including in this proposed report would be useful for us:
- Land Rights
- Housing Rights
- Manual Scavenging
- Right to Food: Discrimination faced in Food Security Programmes
- Special Component Plan
- Reservation in Private Sector
- Dalits and Education
- Political Participation
- Criminal Justice System: PCRA, POA- Untouchability & Atrocities
- Extra Judicial Violence: Torture, Cruel, Inhuman & Degrading treatment
- Dalit Human Rights Defender
- Dalit Bonded Labour
- Jogini/Devadasi System
- Wages: Discriminatory Practices
- Violence against Dalit Women
- Dalit Child Labour
- Access to Health Care Services
- Discrimination faced in Tsunami and other Natural Disasters
Please Respond Immediately.
With Regards
Umakant, Ph.D
Secretary-Advocacy
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
8/1, 2nd Floor, South Patel Nagar
New Delhi-110008
Tel: 011-25842249, Tel/Fax: 011-25842250
Mobile: 093501-83804
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: www.dalits.org
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"Ours is a battle not for wealth or for power.
It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of human personality."
- Dr BR Ambedkar
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