Challenges, opportunities and struggle The Indigenous People and Dalits across religions in South Asia The lives of People Challenges, opportunities and struggle

STRUGGLES AND CHALLENGES Victims of divide and rule policies Socially discriminated and exclude Forcefully displaced in the name of national interest and development

Dam construction and Displacement

STRUGGLES AND CHALLENGES (continuation) Migration and uprootedness, Land alienation and loss of identity, Human trafficking, Religious fundamentalism

OPPORTUNITIES Instruments of HRs and Constitutions of a nation state in favour of the excluded and marginalised, Educational opportunities and possibilities of greater political awareness of rights and duties/responsibilities,

Educational opportunities,

Social movements and civil society organisations (including NGOs and faith based organisations) and public action for and with people, Net working, creation of issue-based common platforms and collaboration with other marginalised and excluded communities, Emergence of leadership within these communities,

6. Emergence of Leadership

7. Economic self-reliance through Self Help Groups,

8. Right to Information and National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,