Co-organisers include the Permanent Mission of Nepal to the UN in New York, UN Woman, UNFPA as well as the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Decsent (GFOD), African Network on Discrimination based on Work and Descent or Decent and Contemporary Forms of Slavery (ANDS), National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), the National Coordination of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (CONAQ), European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network (ERGO Network)
The event focusing on woman from descent-based communities and the unique discriminatory practices they are experiencing based on the idea of “purity and pollution” often tied to ancestral or present occupations.
The event will address the intersectionality of discrimination, marginalization and poverty, and highlight experiences and UN program interventions as well as work NGOs perform which foster liberation and the eradication of the myth of untouchability and social exclusion.
As per the Guidance Note of the Secretary-General on Racial Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, UN agencies, funds, and programmes commit to integrate anti-discrimination into the work of the UN system at global, regional and country level, including through coordination mechanisms. This commitment is also inherently embedded in the Call to Action for Human Rights, as well as the human rights-based approach to programming and a moral imperative of the Leaving No One Behind principle.