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Discrimination based on Work and Descent - Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)

Social hierarchies exist in every culture and they often result in discrimination, social exclusion and the continuation of a cycle of extreme poverty and human degradation. Over 260 million people across the globe find themselves thrust into an unequal hierarchical social order. It ascribes to them a permanent status of devalued personhood and requires of them the performance of stigmatized and exploitative forms of labour. From the Dalits and Burakumin in Asia to the Haratines in Mauritania and Sahel region, Somali Bantu in Somalia, Osu in Nigeria of Africa to Roma, Gypsies across Europe and the DWD diaspora across Northern America. Nearly every continent contains countless lives that have seen their basic human rights violated or denied since time immemorial on the basis of nothing else but their birth determined by the kind of labour forced on them. Each of these communities faces stark similarities in the form and shape of discrimination they have to suffer. Forced to marry only within their own group, coerced into undertaking stigmatized forms of labour and traditional forms of slavery pushed into segregated living and subjected to rhetoric that labels them polluted, these communities find their avenues for social mobility denied, neglected or greatly reduced. This form of oppression has been termed by the UN under the title DWD-‘Discrimination based on Work and Descent’. Although this term acknowledges the hereditary character of the problem, as well as the existence of stigmatized labour, the phrase does not account for the oppressive rhetoric that labels these communities, polluted or unclean. The Draft UN Principles and Guidelines for Effective Elimination of Discrimination based on Work and Descent is yet to be endorsed by the Human Rights Council. These principles include a variety of rights and entitlements that are designed to protect these communities from forced labour and systematic discrimination. In 2017, the OHCHR introduced a guidance tool for the elimination of DWD for all member states to adopt. This tool advocates further human rights protection and the inclusive development and participation of these communities in legislative decision-making. To further the concerns of these communities, the Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF) in association with The Inclusivity Project and Trust Africa has identified DWD communities around the world with whom strategic partnerships could be established across the globe. In September 2019, representatives of DWD communities from 21 Countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America met in New York and established the world’s first network of DWD communities - Global Forum on DWD (GfoD). The GFoD aims to eliminate the practice of DWD, addressing issues of Casteism, traditional forms of slavery and Anti-Gypsism through strengthening national, regional and UN mechanisms. Although the path to the future is long and poses great challenges, GFoD commits to strengthening the networks of DWD communities across national and regional levels and toward a UN declaration on DWD that protects and promotes the rights of these communities and ensures development justice.