- State Level Workshop on “Durban Conference and Indian Dalits” on 16th - 17th March 2002 at Kanpur.
- State Level Workshop on “Globalisation and Communalism” on 20th - 21st June, 2002 at Gopalpur-on-Sea.
- State Level Workshop on “Panchayat Raj” on 29th June 2004 in Bhopal of Madhya Pradesh.
- State Level Workshop on “Employment and Education of Dalit Communities and Natural Resource and Human Rights” on 5th December, 2002 at Keshav Gore Smarak Trust, Goregoan (W) Mumbai.
- State Level workshop on “Dalit Movements Review and need for collective action” on 1st March 2003 at Hyderabad.
- State Level Workshop was held on “Globalisation – Impact on Dalits” on 6th -7th June, 2003 at Bangalore.
- State level Workshop on “Dalit Situation in changing World -the Reasons” on 13th June 2003 at Patna.
- State Level Workshop on “Globalisation – Impact on Dalits” on 29th June 2003 at Bhopal.
- State Level Workshop on “21st Century - General Election - Dalit Cause” on 9-10th October 2003 at Raipur.
- State Level Workshop on “21st Century - General Election - Dalit Cause” on 27-28th October 2003 at Jaipur.
- State Level Workshop on ‘Dalit situation in Kerala (Political, Policies, and Resources)” on 31st October 2003 at Kerala.
- State Level Workshop on Uttaranchal “Dalits–Status and Direction” on 15th - 16th December 2003 at Dehradun.
- State Level Workshop on “Dalits: Leadership Building, Economic Empowerment and Representation of Dalits in Private Sector” on 7th February, 2005 at Rajasthan Paryatan Vikas Nigam Limited, Jaipur.
- State Level Seminar on 4th May, 2007 at St. Anns Generalate, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh on the occasion of 116th Birth Anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Golden Jubilee Celebrations of his Dhamma Deeksha.
- State Level Seminar on “Special Component Plan and Economic Empowerment of Dalits” on 7th and 8th July, 2007
- South India Regional Workshop was held on 6th and 7th June 2003 at Indian Social Institute, Bangalore. Five states participated in the workshop namely Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Kerala and Karnataka.
- North India Regional workshop was held on 12th & 13th November, 2003 at Chandigarh. Three states namely Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh participated in the workshop.
- East India Regional workshop on “Communalism and Dalits” was held on 28th and 29th February 2004 at Carey Centre, Gopalpur-on-Sea. Four states participated in the workshop namely Bihar, Jharkand, Chattisgarh and Orissa
- North India Regional Workshop was held on 29th and 30th September 2004 at Ghatampur, Uttar Pradesh. The workshop was organized by DARPAN. The theme of the workshop was on “Warthaman Paridrushyame Dalitho Ke Bhoomika”.
- West India Regional Workshop was held from 9th - 11th February, 2005 at Upalab Mangal Karyalaya, Solapur on “Globalisation and its Impact on Dalits”.
- National Workshop was organized on “Status of Dalits in the context of Globalization and Communalism” on 25th and 26th May 2000 at the Bosco Institute for Research and Development of Youth (BIRDY), Hyderabad.
- National workshop was organized on “Globalization and Its Impact on Dalits” on 1st to 3rd, September, 2004 at Indian Social Institute (ISI), New Delhi.
- National workshop was organized on “Empowerment of dalits in the wake of Globalisation” on 10th to 12th March, 2007 at Hindi Sahithya Parishath Sabha Grah Moor Bhavan, Nagpur, Maharashtra.
- NDF organised a National Seminar on Special Economic Zone on 10th and 11th November, 2007 at St. John's Regional Seminary, Ramanthapur, Hyderabad.
- NDF organized a National Conference on “The Economic Empowerment of Dalits: Special Component Plan” on 28th and 29th February, 2008 at National Bal Bhawan, New Delhi.
I World Social Forum
The World Social Forum was conceived as an International Forum built around the slogan “Another World is Possible” to contest the formulation offered by neo-liberal economic policies and capitalist led globalization. The Asian social Forum (ASF) was held in January 2003 at Hyderabad, India. Based on the decision, to conduct the third WSF out of Brazil, taken by the second WSF in 2002, the third WSF was organized in Mumbai, India from 16th to 21st January 2004.
NDF members from Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Jharkhand, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Uttaranchal participated in World Social Forum held between 16th and 21st January 2004 in Mumbai.
NDF organised two seminars in WSF event:
- Seminar - I: The Right to Livelihood and Dignity of Deprived Communities
- Seminar - II: Discrimination and Oppression: Racism and Casteism
The following are the issues emerged from the workshop:
- Dalits have been deprived of Education, Political Power, Dignity, Arms and Constitution.
- The LPG scenarios MNCs are taking away the agricultural land to establish agro industries for horticultural products.
- The government is at the withdrawal of the schemes designed for the upliftment of the affirmative policy embodied in Constitution is now become weak.
- Drop out rate among Dalit children is mounting tremendously because of privatisation of education. Their inability to bare high cost of education is pushing them away for the fruits of education.
- The era of globalisation has left Dalit women only the unorganized sector due to marketisation and mechanisation.
- Dalits should demand for redistribution of land and equal share of the entire resources.
- Dalits should fight for reservations in the private sector.
II IDSN- Kathmandu Conference
NDF has participated in this International event. The International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) and the Dalit NGO Federation of Nepal jointly organized an International Consultation on Caste-Based Discrimination at Kathmandu on 29th November-1st December 2004. It focused on establishing Dalit Rights in the contemporary world and the role of Governments, the United Nations and the Private Sector.
The consultation aimed to explore measures to promote implementation of relevant laws, regulations, policies and recommendations to eradicate caste-based discrimination as a key human rights responsibility of governments, civil society and the international community.
In the Course of the consultation, four thematic areas are covered:
- Implementation of General recommendation XXIX on ‘Descent-Based Discrimination’ adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in August 2002
- Effective use of United Nations mechanisms in eliminating caste-based discrimination
- The role of the private sector and trans-national corporations
- Mainstreaming of Dalit rights in development programmes
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