India: Caste Forced to Clean Human Waste | Human Rights Watch
Successive Indian government attempts to end
caste-based cleaning of excrement have been derailed by discrimination
and local complicity. The government needs to get serious about putting
laws banning manual scavenging into practice and assisting the affected
caste communities.
Gangashree
walks through the village to manually clean human excrement from dry
toilets in Kasela, Uttar Pradesh, which she will collect in her basket
and carry to the outskirts of the village for disposal.
