CASTE DISCRIMINATION:

A GLOBAL CONCERN

A Report by Human Rights Watch for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Durban, South Africa, September 2001.
Summary And Recommendations - in French

I. INTRODUCTION

II. CASTE AND THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCE

III. RECOMMENDATIONS

IV. BACKGROUND "Untouchability" and Segregation
Earthquake in Gujarat: Caste and its Fault-Lines
Caste and Marriage
Caste and Labor
Debt Bondage and Slavery
Caste and Socio-Economic Disparities
Access to Education
Access to Land
Political Representation and Political Rights
Physical and Economic Retaliation
Caste and Gender
Caste and the South Asian Diaspora
Failure to Implement Domestic and International Law V. CONCLUSION

VI. Acknowledgments