After generations of exclusion, millions affected by untouchability have a breakthrough. The United Nations Committee is drafting a landmark recommendation to properly address all forms of inherited discrimination based on caste, descent, work and slavery under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Driven by our grassroots advocacy and global solidarity, this milestone transforms local struggles into international recognition - and real accountability. It sends a clear message: these aren't isolated cultural practices. They are serious human rights violations demanding state action.
From Dalit communities in South Asia to Roma in Europe, Buraku in Japan, Haratin and Osu in Africa, and Quilombola in Latin America - inherited exclusion is now on the global human rights agenda.
United across borders
For too long, communities discriminated by work and descent were invisible - isolated, unheard, written out of the systems meant to protect them. The Inclusivity Project is changing that. As convener of the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (GFoD), we unite grassroots leaders, advocates and communities across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America into a single, powerful movement.
From shaping new UN human rights standards to influencing laws, policies and accountability frameworks, GFoD is turning collective pain into collective power. Because when communities once divided by geography but united by shared injustice find each other - everything changes.