Bangladesh: Climate crisis magnifies discrimination against “invisible” sanitation workers

Bangladesh authorities must urgently address their failure to uphold the rights of sanitation workers, who face economic marginalization and entrenched gender- and caste-based discrimination, vulnerabilities that are only deepening amid a global climate crisis driven largely by fossil fuel combustion, Amnesty International said in a new report.

‘Left Behind in the Storm: Dalit Women Sanitation Workers and the Fight for Water and Dignity’, documents the huge barriers that Dalit women sanitation workers in Khulna and Satkhira districts on the south-western coastal belt in Bangladesh face to access safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and their vulnerability and exclusion in climate change relief programmes. It also explores how these workers are largely invisible in government policies on climate change, water and sanitation due to their caste, gender and occupation, despite being among the most affected by these policies.

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