From: Gerard Oonk <g.oonk@indianet.nl>
Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:58 PM
Subject: Succesful struggle against manual scavenging | UN SR on Human
Rights Defenders in India | EU-India FTA | Tata Group Represses T
To: ICN.India.News@server.liw.local
Dear reader,
The website of the Dalit Network Network Netherlands
http://www.dalits.nl/english.html contains a lot of new interesting
information, including:
The first article of a series by well known journalist and media
campaigner Mari Marcel Thekaekara on the situation of Dalits, and
Dalit women and girls in particular. The first article is on the
success of the national campaign on manual scavenging by the Safai
Karamchari Andolan: http://www.dalits.nl/marithekaekara.html
the preliminary observations and recommendations of UN Special
Rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya on the situation of human rights
defenders in India after concluding her recent visit to India. See:
http://www.dalits.nl/110124e.html
The International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) has all the
references by UN Special Procedures between 2005 and 2010 combined on
its website. See:
http://idsn.org/fileadmin/user_folder/pdf/New_files/UN/UNSP_2005-2010_Feb.pdf
the brochure: 'End Caste Discrimination – Support the Dalits' on the
work of the Dalit Network Netherlands. See:
http://www.dalits.nl/pdf/EndCasteDiscrimination.pdf
EU-India FTA, child labour & Dalits
In December 2010 the Dutch parliament adopted a motion on the EU-India
Free Trade Agreement and how to make sure it does not have a negative
effect on e.g. children's rights, the position of Dalits and access to
cheap medicines. See: http://www.indianet.nl/pdf/m101215e.pdf
Tata Group: repression of West Bengal Tea Workers
Tea workers on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India have
launched a new stage in their struggle for rights and justice. When
workers protested over the treatment of a tea plucker in an advanced
stage of pregnancy who was denied maternity leave and forced to work,
management tried to starve them into submission by denying all wages
and rations for 3 months. The IUF (Uniting food, farm and hotel
workers world-wide) has taken up the issue.
You can support their struggle by sending a message to Tata/Tetley –
the power behind local management – telling them to meet the workers'
demands NOW! See:
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=551
Action Plan for Companies: Out of Work – Into School
Did you ever you a look at the Action Plan for Companies to Combat
Child Labour? You can download it here:
http://www.indianet.nl/actionplanchildlabour.html
We can also send you one or more hard copies.
Kind regards,
Gerard Oonk
director India Committee of the Netherlands
Mariaplaats 4e, 3511 LH Utrecht
The Netherlands
http://www.indianet.nl
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