All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM - BIHAR)

AIDMAM has been working in the states of Haryana and Bihar for about 5 years now. AIDMAM has been in the forefront in this strong evolving and growing awareness and assertion of their rights to justice and dignity.

Key areas where AIDMAM works in Haryana and Bihar:

1. Building Dalit Women Leadership
2. Document atrocity cases, fact finding and advocate for dispensation of justice
3. Create awareness and visibilise the issues of dalit women at the local, National and International forum
4. Works towards advocating the rights of Dalit women by engaging with various stakeholders like National commission of Human Rights, Women commissions, Ministries, Local Panchayats, Local Administrations etc
5. Public hearings, fact findings, trainings on relevant laws and International mechanisms
6. Research on caste based atrocities
7. Network and Alliance Building 

 All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch is a platform for women from the community to escalate our voices for justice. From here are born Dalit women activists who have risen to build the struggle for self respect and dignity. We are the fierce young women, who are the force behind the assertions and the struggles. We are the spark. We are the true revolution. We believe in the words of Dr. B.R Ambedkar who said, ". . ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of the human personality. a vibrant and evolving campaign that is organizing to resist the most cruel forms of violence and discrimination against women born into lowest caste groups in India

ALVM is a unique social movement of dedicated people organized for the basic change in the society. Besides overall development of backward State of Odisha, this Manch shall struggle to establish an egalitarian society by uniting and making aware, the undeveloped, deprived and suffering castes, classes, communities, women and poor, with respect to their social, economic, political and cultural rights and self-dignity, believing in the principles of social justice, secularism and democratic values.

Awaken the SC,ST Community on the Indian laws

Motivate the Dalith Communities on their Rights

Buildup the leadership qualitiies among the dalith youth

Educate the Dalith community for self sustainability

Develop the Dalith comminity in culturally, Socially, politically and economically

Keeping the Dr B.R.Ambedaka literature to future genaration

Awareness needed to dalith people for protecting themselves  

Raise the dalith voice  against the social problems

To motivate, educate and organize the community for participatory development activities. To help the community to identify and start locally adapted viable community business that has wider scope in enhancing the poor to become economically better. To improve the education of Girl Children and less privileged children in rural and urban sectors that will help them to build their strong future. To train and equip the working constituency in leadership qualities, local good governance and development. To work for the promotion and sustainability of safe drinking water, good sanitation and personal hygiene. To assist regional and national governments in delivering quality support and promoting community based development activities. To facilitate process in safeguarding natural resources, Human Rights and mobilize public support for the development of all concerned.

Bhartiya Jan Seva Ashram (BJSA) is a non-governmental, apolitical, non-profit, volunteer-driven orgnaization that was instituted under the provisions of the Indian Registration Act (21) 1860. In the last nine years, this institution has been involved with poor and underprivileged communities working towards the causes of social change and eradication of poverty in over 90 villages in Jaunpur zila in Uttar Pradesh.
In the last few years BJSA has been actively working in rural areas, with the cooperation of the local people, for the betterment of the standard of life of underprivileged people belonging to poor, backward communities. The efforts of this organization are directed both towards meeting the requirements of the lowest denominator, namely food, shelter, housing, education, security and self-esteem, as well as contributing to intellectual development of the people.
With the above goals in mind, this organization has undertaken programmes, with the support and participation of Dalit youth, elderly people and children, that direct the efforts of these people, inspire them and make them more aware so as to bring about social, economic, political, cultural, ideological and intellectual change and inculcate in them a sense of responsibility, independence, security and self-esteem.

Goals of BJSA are
* To promote unity, encouraging diversity, peace and mutual goodwill among people. 
* To engender an environment that encourages education for young girls and boys. 
* To popularize science and technology among people. * To serve helpless and underprivileged people and make them self-dependent. 
* To participate in national programmes pertaining to social welfare. 
* To eliminate social malpractices, orthodox outlooks, superstition, substance abuse, dowry etc. 
* To uplift living conditions of the lowest strata of the workforce below the poverty line. 
* To make underprivileged people educated, united and more aware.

Bheema Foundation is registered in India as a state level non-governmental organization. The organization was established in the year 2016 under the laws of society registration Act, 1860 (No 21) of India. Bheema Foundation services and supports encompass a broad range of social change activities aimed at improving human life with and on behalf of communities in India.

Contribute to integration and stability of communities through investments, strengthening links between people and weaving alliances and cross border partnerships.

Support development of visionary and inclusive leadership to consolidate peace, social and economic development. Support inclusion of minority groups in peace building and social progress of the society. Facilitate investment especially for the minority and disadvantaged communities. Contribute to the legal and peaceful progress of Dalit Rights. Support decentralization, participatory local governance and networking between local authorities and grassroots organizations.https://bheemafoundation.org/       email- bheemafoundation16@gmail.com 

The Bheemrao Dalit Rakshna Samithi  (BDRS) is a Dalit civil rights organization locally coordinated from Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, 

 BDRS works in vizianagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh . 

BDVS History

In 1982, a small band of Dalit youth came together with a desire to serve their sisters and brothers. Their coming together inspired them to form a small organization and they named it Bihar Dalit Vikas Samiti. Fr. Jose Kananaikal, SJ guided them in their efforts to work for the Dalits. He was a great motivation to these youth. They had a dream of a just society – a society in which the Dalits can live with justice, equality and dignity. Based on this vision, the BDVS had drawn up a number of concrete objectives and action plans. 

Justice, equality and dignity are not noble concepts. They are the ingredients of a just society. A community that is degraded, marginalized and oppressed for centuries cannot usher into a just society unless it struggles for achieving the same. 

The struggle for a just society is a struggle for economic and political power sharing. The introduction of Panchayat Raj system in Bihar with 50 percent reservation for women and adequate representation for Dalits had brought in a new dynamism to the rural masses especially the Dalits. This had also provided a somewhat liberating effect on the otherwise docile Dalit women. However, the well entrenched caste system with its rigid hierarchical social structure coupled with the feudalistic mindset operative in rural Bihar had crippled the functioning of the Panchayat Raj system. It is also to be noted that the unwillingness of the ruling classes to introduce reforms in the pattern of land ownership, the economic scenario of rural Bihar continued to be unchanged, as land is the principal source of livelihood for the rural masses. Hence, poverty, illiteracy and unhygienic living conditions continued to be the bane of Dalits. 

The Bihar Dalit Vikas Samiti through its critical interventions had brought in remarkable changes in the lives of the Dalits in its operational area and many national and international donor partners supported the organization in this endeavor. 

Over the years, in its involvements and evaluation process, BDVS realized that the organization needs to grow as a Dalit movement. Though in the beginning, the village ‘samitis’ as the basic units of BDVS were caste specific, later close inter-linkages among the castes within the Dalit communities were developed to bring in a Dalit movement. Since, a movement cannot be initiated with project-oriented activities; BDVS started building up infrastructure of human resources from the ‘tola’ to the district level on the basis of the Panchayat Raj with elected representatives at different levels. The vision was to make it a people’s movement and BDVS act as a supportive structure. 

The Bihar Dalit Viaks Samiti recognizes that advocacy and capacity building initiatives must go hand in hand, and that the challenges are multi-faceted and multi-dimensional. Thus it strives through its critical interventions, to be partner and facilitator of Dalits in their struggles for self-realization, development and social empowerment. 

About BMKS:-
•  BMKS  is social development organization registered under society Act 1860 Sec 21 in 2006.
•  Genesis of organization was for Social awareness against social discrimination.
•  Established itself as a unique, credible and pioneering organization in the field of Rights & Justice for poor & downtrodden marginalized (dalit) people through social advocacy, emerged as a new generation NGO aiming to be self-reliant.

Vision : To establish a society based on equality, freedom, self-respect and self-reliance. We have a vision of a society where each and every person has access to equal opportunities for development and upliftment.

Mission : To empower the people, especially under privileged section of society – the Dalits/Mushar, Women and Children through the process of capacity building, forming self managed organizations and collective actions which would catalyze socio-economic-political growth, self reliance, justice, dignity and gender just society for all.

Major Achievements :

• Develop the leadership in 35 girls.

• 150 SMCs trained by bodhimanav kalyan samiti are raising the quality education in their concern schools for Dalit empowerment.

•  Develop self depends in dalit by Awareness Generation programmes (MNAREGA, RTI,DVO,ACT,  SC/ST Act).

•  Manarega union members have directly facilitated for 2500 job cards, 2350 for Getting job and   2350 for getting full payments.

•  Computer, handicraft, Silai& Kadhai etc  to give dalit student by Training on Vocational programme.

• 75 youths are linked to government technical institutes for skill development trainings.

•  our ngo operate two Dalit Budget Resource Center (DBRC) in two blocks & cover 4 blocks &400 villages.

•  1000 labour are registered in Labour office & get more benefit As  cycle, soler power, matritv hit labh, shishuhit labh, medhavi purskar chhatra yojana.  

•  200 members of mahila group and child manch are active in every program and education.

•   Sustainable Agriculture and Livelihood practices among small and marginal farmers especially Dalits/Musahar community .

•  550 student to get scholarship by BMKS.

•  SC/ST cases Upload on ATM& 34 villages are aware by Awareness program of ATM.

• Educationally enabled 125 poor pupils by admitting them in government schools.

• non educated 35 children of villages and urban are taking admission in private school in 2016 by RTE.

Goal : To bring the underprivileged community (especially Dalit, SC/ Musahar, Muslim) into developmental stream and ensure that they have a life of dignity in the society.

Centre for Dalit Rights is an initiative of Dalit Manvadhikar Kendra Samiti (DMKS) that seek to defend, protect and promote the right of the poor, particularly the Dalit who are the most vulnerable, underprivileged and exploited section of the society, through capacity building of Dalits activists, and providing social and legal support as enshrined in the constitution and other instruments of social justice.The State's very attitude of ignorance and aloofness towards atrocities committed against Dalits, and its lenient and prejudiced policy of not taking action against perpetrators of these atrocities is nothing but fulfill its responsibility to promote, protect and enforce the rights of Dalits has prompted to undertake an initiative called Centre for Dalit Rights, (CDR) in Rajasthan.

Mission and activities

One of the objectives of CDR is to demystify the law and enable poor people to fight for their human rights. We define human right to be those, which allow all human beings to live with equality, freedom and dignity. To this end, the Centre will strive to eliminate all forms of political, social, and economic oppression especially as a result of caste discrimination. This would be achieved by undertaking this following intervention:

Monitoring and responding to grave human right violations, especially caste based atrocities & discrimination.

• Investigating into the campaigning against gross human rights violation of Dalit and underprivileged people. It also includes documenting fact-finding report of such cases and follows then up with Union and State government and other institutions like Human Right Commission, Women Commission.
• Conducting training session to promote legal literacy and programmers for Dalits activist and sensitizing, the law enforcing agencies and civil society. In addition, organizing meetings, seminars and public hearing for highlighting the problems of Dalits.
• Also filing PIL in courts on urgent matters/ issues relating to Dalit problems, and providing legal counseling and legal aid to meet victims.

Centre for Mountain Dalit Rights Himachal Pradesh (CMDRHP)

Centre for Mountain Dalit Rights Himachal Pradesh (CMDRHP) is the Palampur based state level facilitation group on the issues of, Civil, Political, Economic, Land, Livelihood Resources and Gender based Rights of Mountain and Tribal Dalits,which seeks to defend, protect and promote the rights of marginalised, particularly the Mountain Dalits who are the most discriminated, vulnerable, underprivileged and exploited sections of the Mountain society.

CMDRHP which is a part of People’s Campaign for Socio - Economic Equity in the Himalayas (PeCamSEEiH) working on the issues of, to " End Untouchability - Atrocity and Annihilate Cast and Patriarchy and demand for Equitable Rights of land, Self employment, Government, Semi/Non Government and Private  Services, Schemes, Program, Business, Industries and Common Livelihood Resources based on proportion to the population and facilitate the process of Equity based People's centric Development and Inclusive policy"

PeCamSeeih - CMDRHPs definition of a Dalit is driven by the socio-economic analysis as:

“Those oppressed sections of the society, namely: scheduled castes; scheduled tribes; Other Backward Castes; Minorities and others who may be socially and educationally backwards. Women, labourers and other - sections faced with hunger and poverty, and not having their fundamental social and economic needs met. Those sections affected by any type of oppression, inequality and discrimination are also included.”

Civil Society Forum on Human Rights (CSFHR) is an Odisha state level platform of organisations and activists committed to the rights inherent to all human beings, irrespective of one’s  nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, caste, language, or any other status and engaged in the protection, promotion and fulfilment of the same. Presently, it works to facilitate the CSO activists to share each others’ experiences and add to the collective strengths of the civil society actors towards human rights.

It is a not-profit collective believes in secularism, democracy and justice. It builds up with universal values pronounced though Universal Declaration of Human Rights and fundamental rights of Indian Constitution.It does not have any affiliation to any religious group or political party directly or indirectly.

Dalit Bahujan Shramik Union (DBSU)

The Dalit Bahujan Shramik Union (DBSU) is a Dalit-Bahujan civil rights organization locally coordinated from Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, South India.

DBSU works in 16 districts of Andhra Pradesh with 550,000 DB families, establishing an efficient structure with equal participation of women. They possess legal ownership of 25,000 acres (100 km²) of land, while utilizing government programmes to further public safety and secure civil rights. In panchayati raj DBSU has become a viable political force, working so others can live with dignity.

INTERVENTIONS

• Efficient structure established with equal women's participation and effective leadership from Village to State, protecting rights of the DB, supporting livelihood opportunities and self dignity.
• Food security of 25,000 DB families established with at least 1-acre (4,000 m²) of land assigned and ownership rights and development.
• Using available Government plans, including Supreme Court directives regarding basic food rights, one lakh DB families were guaranteed an additional 100 days of employment per year with minimum wages.
• DBSU members of the 16 districts are asserting and protecting their rights by raising awareness of the various Acts related to child labour, bonded labour, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989^[5] and other right protection Acts like right to information, etc.
• In 16 districts DB is politically aware of their rights and responsibilities, gained political authority and positions and supporting the socio-economic and political development of the DB.
• DBSU has established connections with many movements and organizations, from mandal to state and national levels, influencing policy on employment, political rights, self-dignity, and public safety.

 Dalit Bahujan Shramik Union (DBSU)

The Dalit Bahujan Shramik Union (DBSU) is a Dalit-Bahujan civil rights organization locally coordinated from Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Telangana (Andhra Pradesh), South India.

DBSU works in 16 districts of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh with 550,000 DB families, establishing an efficient structure with equal participation of women. They possess legal ownership of 25,000 acres (100 km²) of land, while utilizing government programmes to further public safety and secure civil rights. In panchayati raj DBSU has become a viable political force, working so others can live with dignity.

Vision

We have a VISION of a society without exploitation based on the principles of freedom, justice and equality.

Mission

Our mission is to create a society without a system of bonded labour or slavery, without gender and caste based discrimination, where every individual has an opportunity to engage in their own and society’s economic, social, cultural and political development.

Goal

• To end the scourge of child and bonded labour and engaging in the creation of new lives for them.
• To engage women in employment, and end the untouchability and discrimination which marginalizes Dalit and minority groups.
• To strive for equality in the workplace, free of exploitation and where their primary needs (food, health, security, education, shelter) are fulfilled and their entitled wages are secured.
• To spread awareness about, and create access to all legal provisions, schemes and constitutional rights made available to disadvantaged groups.
• We denounce all cultural activities which degrade, pity or mock disadvantaged groups. Likewise, we promote all cultural activities, like festivals and events which promote equality, harmony and unity.

Dalit Sthree Sakthi (DSS)

Dalit Sthree Sakthi (DSS) is the only organization in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana that works exclusively for the empowerment of Dalit women. According to Ms. Jhansi Geddam, the Convener of this organization, Dalit Sthree Sakthi took shape as an organization in the year 2005 with the goal of organizing Dalit women in the erswhile state of Andhra Pradesh to fight for their rights and entitlements.

Vision & Mission of Dalit Sthree Sakthi is to build a society in which Dalit women have real equality and equity in dignity, rights and resources. They aim to capacitate Dalit women leaders to fight against oppression of caste, class and gender and enhance rights and entitlements of women. According to Ms. Jhansi, the successive governments and political parties have been viewing Dalit women only as vote banks and attempting to persuade them with various monetary schemes and on the doles of various welfare measures; it has been thought necessary to awaken Dalit women to fight for justice and self respect rather than for monetary benefits. The idea took its root in the course of “Campaign on Violence against Women” that took place during November 2004 in the background of International Campaign on Violence Against women. Since 2005, DSS has been implementing programs aimed at uniting the Dalit women onto one platform and facilitating their empowerment so that they can defend their rights by questioning all violations. DSS claims to have achieved reasonable success in this endeavor.

GENESIS

DALIT VIKAS ABHIYAN SAMITI is a right based civil society organization working towards empowerment of Dalits and women through addressing factors of exclusion and advancement of their rights in close coordination and support from broader secular, democratic, progressive and egalitarian social movements without losing its dalit perspective. Over the last 20 years, its developmental interventions are attenuated to augment the increased participation of marginalized communities through various enabling strategies and programs such as Advocacy, sensitization, issue based campaigns, community capacity building and networking and to ensure fundamental socio-economic rights, including human rights, and resolutions of various National and International Bodies.

OUR GOAL:

To establish an egalitarian society for the less privileged; especially DALITS; community people who can enjoy rights, liberty, equality and fraternity by enabling themselves independent.

OUR MISSION:

To empower the Dalits and underprivileged community people to maximize their potential and enable them to become independent and self-reliant through foster a conducive environment to enable the less privileged to assert their rights and live in dignity.

OUR VISION:

To build the capacities of discriminated groups to raise their voices and represent themselves in activities to combat Factors leading to exclusion, socio-economic discrimination and inequalities.

Objective of DVAS:

The prime objective of DVAS in the areas of social, economic, cultural and education. It includes providing aid to poor and needy. DVAS predominantly focuses on the area of awareness for the need of education.

The specific areas to work for DVAS is

• To serve the people through yoga programmes the area of health services.
• To create awareness for protection of environment.
• To work for the protection of different cultures and monuments of historical importance.
• To organize programmes for women and child development, and also work towards the all-round development of Dalits and other backward castes.
• To do every developmental and innovative works this can prove to be beneficial for the society with the help of Government and Non-Governmental Organisations and C.S.R. And other works which can are beneficial for the society.

DVAS WORKING AREAS:

DVAS is currently working with unreached and underserved Dalit communities in around 50 Gram Panchayats and 360 villages all forming part of Patna, Vaishali, Samastipur, Muzafferpur ,Gaya,Rohtash, Bhabhua and Nalanda, districts of Bihar, benefiting around 21000 poor and indigent Dalit communities. Bodh Gaya & Kankarbagh Nagar Panchayat in Urban area.

Key Initiatives:

• Social Inclusion : Inclusion of the excluded communities has been the prime working issue of the organization. The organization believes in formation and nurturing of of Community based organisation’s coupled with enhancement of micro – macro linkage and advocacy to be the key strategy for inclusion. Equity in terms of access to resources and active participation in decision making process as key indicators to inclusion for marginalized communities. The organization has been putting in sincere efforts since its inception for access to basi rights among the excluded communities.

• Promoting Education as basic Rights among Marginalized Children :Dalit Vikas Abhiyan Samiti strongly beholds education as a catalyst to foster development of the marginalized societies and instrumental in creating awareness around issues related to rights and entitlements. THe organization has been involved in periodic study of educational process of the marginalized as Scheduled Caste children to understand the factors and cuases responsible for exclusion of children for the educational process. THe organization has been advocating for proper implementation of Right to Education 2010 norms at the educational institution with the government. It has also drawn a campaign to sensitize the parents with community involvement for active participation and management of the centres. The organization is running JAGJAGI centres at Patna and BodhGaya to motivate children to join the mainstream educational system.

• Women Empowerment : Empowerment of Women has been a non negotiable principle for DVAS since its inception. The organization values empowerment of women as building base for strong family and value based society. THe organization has undertaken a series of initiatives ranging from formation and nurturing of SHG’s and campaign against domestic violence related with women. The organization has been instrumental in organizing women groups especially dalit women groups on issues related with sexual and Physical harassment.

• Combating social discrimination through legal and constitutional options: Fact finding and legal support under POA. Counseling services, Para legal Training, Orientation of Human Right defender, Advocacy for use to right to information, right to service etc.

• Promoting Livelihood and vocational Training: Livelihood promotion has been one of the areas for facilitating economic strengthening of the marginalized groups for the organization. The organization has been facilitator in Promoting micro Livelihood activities and vocational training to young girls on stitching, embroidery and computer training with focus on girls from minority community to enhance their skills of economic value to make them self relaint and live a life with confidence and pride.

• Health and Sanitation: Health is a burning problebothe in rural and urban areas among the marginalized and poverty struck population. THe organization firmly beieves that health expenditure are not a concept with poor household rather they have the concept of cost of treatment when the health takes a bad shape. THe organization has put in efforts to sensitize and build awareness of the local communities on health provisions , maternal and child health and conducted several adolescent Health awareness programmes. THe organization has been promoting engagement of settlement improvement committee ( SIC’s) to demand and negotiate for rights ot health and sanitation as explicitly mentioned in the Bihar State Slum Policy 2011.
• Promoting Child Rights. The organization firmly believes that the investment in children are important from the vantage point of building a strong future for the country. But there has been gros violation of rights of children in the state which needs to addressed. The organization has been engaged in various campaign against child labor to ensure community awareness and advocacy for implementation of child rights. The organization has been also actively involved in campaign against child marriage.

• Youth leadership development program: The organization has been actively involved in building the human capital especially with the Youth Groups. Various Capacity building programs on thematic issues have been organized to improve the skill Knowledge and aptitude of the rural youths to promote a sense of confidence to meet the life challenge with maturity. The organization has been involved in organisinmg Youth leadership development Program both for men and women to build their capacitates and development of leadership trait.

• Agricultural Development and on farm enterprise promotion: Agriculture is one of the key sphere for augmenting the household income in rural areas and to ensure food security for all. The organization has been working on the issue as promoting improved techniques and practices to ensure better management and promotion of small and marginal farmers. The organization has been creating awareness on non chemical farming and to address the issues as arresting land degradation through use of vermin composting in place of chemical fertilizer based agriculture among the farming communities.

• Building capacities of Urban Poor for access to rights and services: DVAS has been constantly working with the Urban Poor groups to address the issues of urban Poverty and urban governance in the urban poverty pockets of ctities like Bodhgaya and Patna. The organization has been invoved in formation and nurturing of peoples collectives to organize and raise voice against Urbanpovery in the state. Federations of thes e organization have been promoted by the organization to demand and negotiate for their rights and entitlements for leadeing a life with access to basic services and dignity.

KEY STRATEGY:

The methodology adopted by the organization for the attainment of its goal is one of a harmonious blend of the twin approaches of activism/struggle and development. The way to effective empowerment is one hinging on and oriented towards evolving autonomous community based organizations endowed with capabilities required for the actualization of a spirit of self- determination and self-reliance. Further community based organizations have strategic networking relationships in all the target areas under the banner of BCHR and DVAS facilitators to work as per Executive Committee Resolutions and direction. A frontal organization with an avowed aim to facilitate issue based interventions from time to time. We educate, we organize and we struggle for our rights.

WORKING METHODOLOGY OF DVAS:

Director is taking care of and is responsible for the success of the programmes assigned to each staff member. He conducts one to one meeting and monitors the ongoing project. A monthly meeting is held where all staff members are required to be present. From a volunteer to a field worker to programme coordinator to director there is close interaction and all the members of DVAS are well aware to there responsibilities. Since we work for our people there is total involvement and sincerity. Work responsibility is explained to all concerned staff by director and programme coordinator and monthly evaluation helps us find solution to all assigned task.

Dr.Ambedkar Social Justice Centre, Bhopal  (Madhya Pradesh)                                                

Government of our country is continuously working for development of just and peace full society where each citizen   of our country could enjoy freedom, equality, and fraternity and could live with dignity full life. Our constitution provides us a guarantee of our all human rights, such as right to freedom, right to equality, right against exploitation, right  to freedom of religion ,right to culture and education, right to live with dignity and  prohibition of discrimination on the ground of race, cast, sex, place of birth and any of them. We received success on many of these social issues and our country today is now known as fast developing economy in the world. Our society itself has developed many systems to address the various social and economical problems. In the cases of accident by vehicles, there is a system been established to support victims and to address the cases of accidents?  Immediately after the incident the point person of Advocates reach to the place, contact with the person and his relatives and support them in court to claim for compensation.

Still there is no any system through which victims could get immediate support in incident of social atrocities. Establishing the community based system to address the atrocities against weaker section of our society is main objective of this initiative.

We believe that, this important system could definitely develop to overcome the violence against weaker section on the basis of our experiences. Deciding our priorities, involving community and building Social Security Fund, trained young law professionals and sensitizing Civil Societies, using Networking strength and by  adopting land right issue as strategy, we would get success to develop this system. We have various kinds of successes and experiences to end these discrimination violence and atrocities and so that we appeal to all human right supporter to support and participate in this initiative.

We have already received success in minimizing atrocities- We have already received success in minimizing atrocities in our intensive work area’s Districts in M.P. with the support of actionaid To achieve this aim we have developed needed structures in our Districts, trained community leaders, organized Advocates under ASJ and generated community fund SSF. We coordinate all these actors in planned way and gained positive result in minimizing atrocities in our intensive work area.  

Ambedkar Social Justice Centre

• Atrocity cases advocacy & monitoring: During our course of work we realized that some of the administration and police were insensitive towards the protection of Scheduled caste and scheduled tribe’s people’s human rights because of the castiest mind-set. Ambedkar Social Justice Centre from last three years has worked to sensitize government authorities to implement preventive provisions under SC ST PoA Act 1989 to protect Dalit Human rights.

• Case support: In last three years, ASJC has addressed total 129 cases of atrocities in the state. ASJC adopted multiple strategies to address atrocities and untouchability cases. ASJC proactively provided support in some of the cases and FIR got registered and compensations were given to victims. 439 atrocities cases were addressed through telephone. Due to ASJC’s continuous advocacy some cases were reopened.  26 cases were handled by active cadre of ASJC.  Legal counselings were also done. Fact finding were conducted in 22 cases and in 4 cases indirect support were given.  Judgments received in 17 cases supported by ASJ centre.

• Untouchability Study: A study on status of caste based untouchability in Madhya Pradesh was conducted through Dr. Ambedhkar Social Justice Centre. The study conducted in 30 villages across 5 regions of the state revealed that 70 types of untouchability is still being practiced in society such as no sharing of food, common water with Dalit.   Calling people from Dalit community with undignified names, not allowed for hair cut in saloons, separate plates and food for Dalit children while MDM distribution in schools. The study also revealed that in 80% of villages Dalit are not allowed to enter the common temples. In Bundelkhand, the extent of untouchability is 52%, in Chamabal - 49%, in Nimar - 41%, Baghalekhand - 38% and Madhyanchal is with 17%.

• Dalit Adhikar Dastakh Abhiyan: ASJC has had a series of advocacy efforts with state & central government through a campaign named ‘Dalit Adhikar Dastakh Abhiyan’. The campaign was started on 6th December 2014 which is Dr. Ambedkar Mahaparinirvan Diwas and ended on 10th December 2014 International Human Rights Day. The campaign earning and outcomes report were widely shared with public and the state. Press conference was held and a copy of report was submitted to Chief Minister’s office along with that it was given to Minister of Social Justice, Minister of Scheduled Caste and Tribal Welfare; Madhya Pradesh Scheduled Caste Commission, State Human Rights Commission; Women and Child development department for their reference. Besides campaign team shared the report with more than 10 state’s MLAs.

• Dalit Leadership School: Dalit leadership school was organized to develop ideological perspective of youth from dalit community. This has led to people’s voices coming together for eradication of untouchability and caste base practices/occupations in public places. Till 2016, we had four state level Dalit Leadership schools. The main discussion was around different progressive ideologies, women’s rights and land rights, Dalit cultural, dalit and subaltern feminism, globalization and on atrocity tracking and monitoring tools which helps to deal in present scenario. These have been further equipped with feminist jurisprudence to ensure that community leaders can use these as tools. We have also had a series of orientation program on Dalit-Muslims, one of the most ignored group who are struggling to get basic entitlements. We have total 2882 first line leaders in which 1040 are women.

• National Dalit Agenda: National consultation for development of National Dalit Agenda was held in Bhopal to prepare an agenda to ensure Dalit’s access and control over Land, water forest, other natural resources. In consultation over 70 representatives across 18 states participated and shared their views.  Through this participatory process a National Dalit Agenda was drafted with an aim to ensure dignity & Justice for Dalit community across country.  Drafted Dalit agenda was shared to central and states ministries for further acceptance and action.

                BR Ambedkar Mahila Mahasangha is a forum has been working for the protection of rights of Dalits over 20 years now. The forum functions in the millenium city of Cuttack providing for access to socio legal services as required by the men, women and children who fall victims of exploitation, fraud and abandonment and facing formidable challenges in terms of survival, maintenance and protection due to their poverty, ignorance and all out vulnerability. The forum also strives for the socio – economic upliftment and empowerment of Dalits and other marginalized segments of population. As an integral part of its mission the forum fights for ensuring the fulfillment of the constitutional and statutory rights of SC & ST communities.Besides,the forum makes its interventions as and when required in the context of conflict situations and litigations arising from the cases of Domestic violence , Family disputes, Trafficking , Bonded Labour , Child Marriage , Crimes of sex , Sexual harassment at workplace and Child Labour. Moreover the forum has been contributing its mite to the cause of proper implementation of the citizenfriendly legislations enacted around Right to Education, Right to Homestead and Agricultural land to the landless poor , Right to work under MGNREGA and Forest rights. Concurrently the forum undertakes awareness, training and orientation programmes for the capacity building of the activists and civil society groups working for Dalits and other marginalized people.

Dynamic Action Group (DAG)

Dynamic Action Group (DAG) was born out of a concerted effort of Dalit activists from Uttar Pradesh (UP) to bring about a Dalit agenda within the larger NGO sector of the State. After the Babri Masjid demolition riots, the State-level human rights platform UP Voluntary Action Network launched a campaign against communalism. Through the campaign Ram Kumar, the founder and current director of DAG, traveled across the State where and witnessed the failure of local groups to address atrocities against Dalit persons. Discrimination against Dalits was deeply entrenched within the NGO sector, even though the NGOs were supposedly “immune” to castiesm. These findings prompted Ram Kumar to initiate a consultation process with a number of smaller Dalit NGOs and develop a network to advance a Dalit agenda. As a result of this two-year process, in 1999 DAG was set up, on the belief that “the people who are struggling should be leading that struggle.” Indeed, while inclusion of non-Dalits is one of the strongholds of DAG, the network agreed that decision-making power should rest with the Dalit community.

Dynamic Action Group (DAG) was formed with the objective :-

• To strengthen the concept and philosophy of Dalit emancipation.

• To provide training and education to create new leadership.

• To initiate and expand debates on Dalit issues.

• To create Public awareness on Dalit issues.

• To locate methods for civil society to participate in the process of change initiated by DAG.

Principal activities are: -

• Training Dalit youth and women for developing leadership and building perspective.

• Organizing Public Hearings and Tribunals on violation of Dalit human rights.

• Monitoring events, media and development and disseminating the outcome.

• Advocacy

“Manuski” (humanity) is one of the most significant and moving words used by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Though Manuski was registered as a trust in 2007, it is also name given for the programs initiated since 2005 to work with various castes from Scheduled Castes and DNT’s. These programs intended to help socially deprived members of Indian society to become free of the material and psychological obstacles to their full participation in a caste free society as envisioned by Dr. Ambedkar. Transcending caste barriers and to establish channels for conveying change taking place in part to another part of society is central to all programs at Manuski.

Manuski is a registered trust with the charity commissioner, under Bombay Public trust Act (1860), in 2007. The trust is run by young professionals from Scheduled Caste backgrounds who know from their own experiences the ground realities of caste and untouchability.

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Navsarjan Trust

Navsarjan is a grassroots Dalit organization dedicated to ensuring human rights for all. Their mission is to eliminate discrimination based on untouchability practices; ensure equality of status and opportunities for all, regardless of caste, class or gender; and to ensure the rule of law. Navsarjan is the largest Dalit organization in Gujarat, and one of the most effective in India.  It is active in more than 3,000 villages, as well as in the cities.  A field staff of about 80 men and women—most of who come from the communities in which they work keeps Navsarjan in tune with the needs of people on the ground.Part of the core of Navsarjan’s work is to establish an independent consciousness within the people, so that they can fight oppression and inequality without Navsarjan’s help.  To that end, the field staff organizes thousands of meetings and training programs.  Women’s rights groups, land rights groups, youth groups, village paralegals, agricultural workers groups, and many more are organized and trained to exist independently of Navsarjan, though with Navsarjan’s support behind them.  Navsarjan is working to strengthen a movement of equality, and the power behind that movement must come from the community itself. In its two decades of work, which have included both setbacks and successes, Navsarjan has grown to be widely respected (and feared by those who work against equality) locally, state-wide, nationally, and internationally.

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Himachal Pradesh

Mr. Raj Kumar is a Dalit Human Rights Defender and keeping a track on Dalit/Adivasi Atrocities across the State of Himachal Pradesh. He is associated with NDMJ-NCDHR from more then 14 years and intervening into cases of violation and doing advocacy with District departments for ensuring justice to the needy.

Mr. Anil Bhawre is an Activist involved in the Dalit Human Rights Monitoring. He along with the fellow activists conducts Fact Finding in the Dalit/Adivasi Atrocity cases and gets into the legal intervention of the cases. He also takes up the cases upto State level for advocating them with State level mechanisms accountable for protecting the rights of Dalit and Adivasis.

Adv.Keval Ukey (BA,LLM,Ph.D., PGDFSC) is a social activist working on Dalit Rights issues in Maharashtra since last 10 years. He is State General Secretary of NDMJ for Maharashtra State. He is having strong networking in Maharashtra state and grounded the NDMJ movement in around 20 Districts of Maharashtra State.

Dalit Adhikar Sangathan (DAS) is a network of 7 NGOs and CBOs coming together to fight for the rights of poor and marginalized people in Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, and Kendrapara Districts of Odisha. Dalit Adhikar Sangathan is a Dalit people’s movement, pro-active, non-profit, social organization. The organization was conceived with the idea of self-transforming for excellence and to promote and protect the rights of Dalits. The spirit of youth leadership deep rooted in exploitation and victimization from Dalit perspective during the college days is well inculcated in the foundation of the organization. A group of self-motivated and committed activists have been well associated and involved in promoting the interest of Dalits on Right Based Approach. Information, education, empowerment and capacity building have been the rallying point to carry forward the mission.

Vision:

A society free from injustice, discrimination, unemployment and prejudice, but saturated with righteousness, self employment, manifestation of artistic velour, prosperity and national integrity.

Mission:

“The mission of the Sangthan is to promote people’s institutions, empower them to assert for the rights of the Dalits and initiate need based actions that would enable the Dalit Communities to come up at par with the mainstream society.”

Objectives:

•Promotion and strengthen to fight for their right

Goals:

•To eradicate untouchability, social discrimination and caste-based atrocity with special focus on Dalit women

•To ensure equality and equal rights for Dalits to develop an equitable society.

•To abolish caste based discrimination

Values: Organization values equal opportunity and access to the rights (democracy, liberty, equality, fraternity, transparency, and accountability) less

Mr. Vidyanand Ram had been working as a Dalit Human Rights Defender (DHRD) with an objective to ensure justice to the SC/ST and other marginalized sections of the Society. He had been a part of more then 400 Fact Finding Missions conducted in Bihar and neighbouring States and had been associated as a member with various Civil Society Groups on State and National Level. 

National Dalit Movement for Justice

The National Dalit movement for Justice (NDMJ) is a democratic, secular, non-party movement of Dalit survivors, defenders, academics, organizations headed by Dalits  to initiate advocacy and involve in mass action to address the issues of caste based discrimination (CBD) and violence (primarily untouchability and atrocities) to ensure dignity, equality and justice.  It is one of the four movements that comprise the National Campaign for Human Rights (NCDHR). It has presence in 17 states across India to organize, educate and mobilize the Dalit community, organizations and civil society to promote and protect civil and political rights of Dalits.

OROSA - ODISHA

Regional Forum, the Orissa Regional Organization for Social Action (OROSA) came into existence on March 6, 1997. It is an official wing of the Catholic Bishops of Orissa for promoting justice, peace, and development in Orissa. It is a statutory established non-profit organization, working for the empowerment of poor and the marginalized, building leadership through capacity building, networking, education and animation. It provides a platform to share experiences in the developmental field, strengthening and coordinating the development activities across 30 districts of Orissa (Angul, Balasore, Bargarh, Bhadrak, Bolangir, Boudh, Cuttack, Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Gajapati, Ganjam, Jagatsingpur, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Kendrapara, Keonjhar, Khurda, Koraput, Malkangiri, Mayurbhanj, Nabarangpur, Nayagarh, Nuapara, Puri, Rayagada, Sambalpur, Sonepur, and Sundargarh).

Its vision is to build up a just and self – reliant society rooted in Gospel values for the poor and marginalized irrespective of caste, creed and colour in the State of Orissa.It primarily serves as a Regional Resource Centre (RRC) for programme planning, training, research, evaluation, documentation and consultancy on regional issues. It is a network of five Diocesan Social Service Societies of Orissa. Its vision is “Building up a just and self- reliant society rooted in Gospel values for the poor and marginalized irrespective of caste, creed and colour in the State of Orissa.” The aims/objectives of the organization are – 1) To empower the diocesan core personnel through capacity building, coordinating, advocacy and lobbying, research, resource mobilization, and facilitating net working, media coverage, liasoning with government, NGOs, CBOs, 2) Building a data bank and supporting the DSSS for solution of the issues and 3) State level federation building, regional level consultation, pooling of expertise, becoming a think tank and dissemination of ideas.

Our History

Rights Education And Development Centre (READ) is a Non Government Organizational established in the year 2001, with the objective to create a Society where every person has the Right to Life and Dignity. To bring sustainable change to the Arundhatiar Community who are the most marginalized communities among Dalits in Tamil Nadu. Arundhatiars are considered to be Dalit among Dalits. Arundhatiars have suffered years of exploitation and cruel humiliation. They are oppressed socially and economically in many ways. There are 60 lakhs (6 million) Arundhatiars in Tamil Nadu, mostly residing in the western districts. READ is working hard to free the community from exploitation, poverty, child labour and many human rights violation that this community face every day.

By working at a community level, we ensure children have a quality education through our Child Activity Centres. Women are organized into federations and have possibility to save and avail loans at the time of requirement; otherwise they depend upon money lenders who charge huge rate of interest. We provide awareness to the community about importance of education which we believe would transform the community in the coming years.

Our Mission

To protect the fundamental rights of every person in the Arundhatiar community; working specifically towards Quality Education to the children, Economic Development for the women and adults, and bring dignity and liberation for every individual.

Our Objectives

• Ensure Quality Education for Children of Arundhatiar Community
• Completely eradicate Child Labour and Bonded Labour system
• Empower and Build Capacity of Arundhatiar Women
• Empower, Educate, Build Capacities and Create Opportunities for youth
• Eradicate inhuman practice – the manual scavenging
• Protect the Human Rights on Socio, Economic, Health and Education
• Conduct various researches, document, lobby and advocate for changes in the Policies that are affecting the Dalit Community

Our Beneficiaries

We work in 101 villages across Sathyamangalam and Salem Districts of Western Tamil Nadu in India. In the past years, about 8000 children, 5000 families and 2000 women are benefitted throughout various programmes. In the coming years we are aiming to reach out to many more families in the community investing in the lives of children, youth and women to change a generation.

Sampurna Gram Vikas Kendra (SGVK) is a grassroots Dalit organisation based in Palamu District, Jharkhand. Founded in 1990 by Vinod Kumar, SGVK emerged following a need for an organisation centered on social and economic transformation of Dalit communities within the area. The organisation began its efforts by developing campaigns on issues such as access to water and land, and bonded labour of Dalit children through a range of activities, including mobilizing and organizing

Communities and facilitating the establishment of youth and labour associations. The organization’s core interventions are focused in Palamu, an economically disadvantaged district with large populations of Dalits. While Jharkhand is generally known for its high population of

Tribals, the area has also a high number of Dalit communities, with SC/ST totaling two fifth of the population of the State.

Trainings

SGVK offers trainings on issues of legal literacy, leadership and fact-finding/documentation. The trainings do not follow a fixed schedule and are provided on the needs and desires of the staff. Team members are often sent to workshops and capacity building programs offered by external partners. These include Dalit human rights monitoring and documentation and trainings on panchayat institutions. When SGVK was building its atrocity programs, SGVK staff was sent to DAG to learn about the organisations strategies, programs, and project areas.

SC Department AICC

The Vision of SC Dept of AICC is to enhance the share of SCs voting for Congress party.

We would achieve this by adopting a Mission approach to the following outcomes. 

1. Development of sincere and committed leaders from among SCs 

2. Expand and deepen the voice of SCs within the party 

3. Policy advocacy to bring out policies, programs and legislations that have potential to empower the SCs

4. Strengthen the SC Department Committees at all level up to Gram Panchayat level, to mobilise and organize SCs on issues critical to their lives; provide hand holding support to the SCs to access their rights and entitlements.

Social Awareness Society for Youths (SASY) is a human rights organization, actively engaged in promoting and protecting Dalit rights in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. SASY has sought to hold the State accountable to its citizens for the chronic abuses of their rights and has worked to advance a human rights culture disposed to safeguard both the welfare and the freedom of all people. It was founded and duly registered by a few Dalit activists in 1983.

The objectives of organization are: to facilitate the protection and promotion of Dalit Human Rights. To undertake all efforts towards the overall empowerment and development of vulnerable groups like Scheduled Castes, Tribal, women, children and other marginalized sections of the society in all over Tamil Nadu by offering support services like training, research, documentation, seminars, workshops etc., and by coordinating and networking with likeminded NGOS.

Vision: A Just Society where the Human Dignity, Human Rights of the Dalit and Adivasis are respected

Mission: “Facilitating efforts towards establishing a just society replete with Human Dignity by Protecting and Promoting the Human Rights of Dalit and Adivasis and fostering empowerment process for the Dalit Liberation.”