Build solidarity
The Global Forum on CDWD (GFoD) unites partner organisations across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America under a single platform. Different histories, common cause.
Communities discriminated on work & descent
Ending untouchability
across the world.
Untouchability isn't ancient history. It is still one of the largest and most ignored human rights crises in the world. Even today, 330 million people - more than the entire population of the United States - are seen as dirty, polluted, impure, less than human, for no reason but who they were born as. The Inclusivity Project is the survivor-led movement working to end it, from the grassroots to the United Nations.
330M+
People affected by descent-based discrimination worldwide
268
Community leaders trained and supported, with lived experience
21
Countries with trained rights monitors ready to escalate to the UN
UN
ECOSOC consultative status, advocating at the highest levels
What untouchability means
Untouchability is inherited.
It is there from the moment you are born. The social group you are assigned at birth decides your worth, your work, your future, and the walls you will spend a life pushing against.
Communities are identified by the labour society forces on them: cleaning sewers with bare hands, removing carcasses and waste from the streets, and worse. Children are turned away from schools. Families are barred from wells, temples and clinics. When people assert their rights, they are met with boycotts, violence and death.
We inherited it. We are determined our children will not.
Who we are
Founded in 2017. Survivor-led. Based at the heart of the UN.
The Inclusivity Project is a survivor-led global non-profit based in New York, with 501(c)(3) status. Since 2017 we have worked to eliminate untouchability and all forms of discrimination based on work and descent, caste systems, inherited status, and descent-based slavery - wherever in the world they are found.
Dalits in South Asia, Burakumin in Japan, Roma in Europe, Haratin and Osu in Africa, Quilombola in Latin America: different names, the same inherited exclusion. We bring visibility, voice and action to it - from the grassroots to the United Nations.
Our approach
From grassroots to Geneva, and back to the ground.
We partner with grassroots leaders to build inclusive coalitions, then platform them at the UN. Global recognition becomes pressure that catalyses local change.
Train rights experts
Our Community Rights Experts programme equips grassroots advocates with the legal knowledge and advocacy skills to lead change in their communities, and to carry their evidence all the way to the UN.
Amplify globally
We platform community voices at the UN Human Rights Council, ECOSOC, ACHPR and EU mechanisms. Local stories become global calls for justice that pressure governments to act.
Areas of work
Five programmes that turn lived experience into change.
From training community leaders to building our own evidence base, our work centres the people most affected by inherited discrimination - and carries their voice from the grassroots to the United Nations.
For the first time, we felt like we mattered. Like someone was listening. Like we could actually win.Ali Camarra TIP Rights Expert, The Gambia
Stories of impact
What advocacy looks like, in practice.
The people who carry lived experience into the rooms where decisions are made.
Kunjini's story
She was fighting injustice before she had the words for it. Today she is a human rights lawyer turning lived experience into evidence - and evidence into action.
Women leading a new global movement
Through partnerships with UN Women and global human rights mechanisms, women leaders from our communities have forced the world to confront the violence and stigma they face.
Yacouba's story
Activist, artist, rapper. On stage he is Sage Soldat - the Wise Soldier - taking the fight against slavery all the way to the UN.
Our achievements
What grassroots power has changed.
Behind every number is a family, a community, a generation demanding dignity - and a system that has started to move.
1
International human rights law passed recognising descent-based discrimination and untouchability, for the first time
16
African countries with stronger legal protections against slavery-like oppression, on the back of ACHPR Resolution 619
6
Governments that formally raised untouchability with other nations on the world stage
1st
Caste Awareness Day declared by a US city council, a first on American soil
268
Community leaders with lived experience now trained, supported and protected
21
Countries with trained rights monitors, ready to escalate any violation to the UN
83
Interventions at international human rights forums in 2025 alone
25
Detailed violation reports submitted to UN human rights mechanisms in 2025
3
Digital Empowerment Centres opened in Cameroon for women and young people from affected communities
180+
Researchers convened in Africa to investigate caste-like structures, building on 12 TIP reports
5,000+
Americans educated on modern untouchability during a nationwide speakers roadshow
270M+
People across five continents now finding representation, advocacy and protection through TIP's work
Where we work
Local presence, global platforms.
We support grassroots organisations to engage directly with global stakeholders - bringing visibility to issues that international bodies have historically overlooked.
Asia
5 partners- Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)
- Bangladesh Dalit & Excluded Rights Movement
- National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
- Feminist Dalit Organization (FEDO)
- Human Development Organization (HDO)
Africa
GFoD anchored- Global Forum on CDWD (GFoD)
- Country partners
- African Commission (ACHPR)
Europe
ERGO Network- ERGO Network
- UPR engagement
Latin America
CONAQ partnership- CONAQ
Your support makes a difference
Ending descent-based discrimination is essential to human dignity.
The issue remains underfunded and under-recognised - especially for the youth from these communities. The Inclusivity Project is changing that by building a united global voice. We need your help to sustain the momentum.