Polite notice: This session includes detail (through the documentary film and presentations) about real-life cases of sanitation worker deaths and injuries, which some viewers/attendees may find upsetting*
Workshop to connect key learnings from the labour and human rights sectors (on occupational health and safety, formalisation, collectivisation, worker entitlements and responding to labour violations) to ongoing advocacy on sanitation work in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector.
Speakers
1. Carlos CarriĆ³n-Crespo (International Labour Organisation)
2. David Kapya (International Labour Organisation)
3. David Boys (Public Services International)
4. Documentary film introduced by Harsh Mander (Centre for Equity Studies) and Natasha Badhwar (Writer, Filmmaker & Activist), with Anam Sheikh and Sandeep Yadav
5. Vidit Verma, Suresh Garimella & Utkarsh Mishra (Centre for Equity Studies, India)
Chairs: Dr Sally Cawood & Organising Committee
Sanitation Workers Forum 2021 (2022). Connecting Labour Rights & Sanitation Workshop Sanitation Workers Forum 2021
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