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A 'bundle of muscles' in a exercise centre, Ramabai colony, Bombay, India.

Awadkesh Kumar, 24 years, was acting as a leader for the untouchables community in his village in Bihar, India. Repeatedly members of the community were herrassed by the caste citizens, who shouted caste discriminating names after them in the stret.…

The monotonous sound of a hammer hitting a rock fills the quarry. Everybody else takes a break but one older man with homemade shin protection just keeps going and going. This man is working as a coolie in a quarry in Tamil Nadu, India. If he keeps…

Most of the inhabitants in the small village Sabir Bhil in Pakistan has a debt to a local landlord. 30-year old Lakhio and his wife 22-year old Gatha has a 260 euros loan. They have to work for the interest, and won´t be able to pay back the loan as…

Bonded and forced labour in Pakistan among Dalits, some of whom have converted to Christianity or Islam, is widespread. In the provinces of Sindh and Punjab an estimated 0.75 to 1.5 million people are bonded labourers. Debt bondage is fuelled by the…

40 families of the Oad caste in Pakistan’s Sindh province work at this brick factory. Among them is Phoolan, her three children and husband. Whether they borrowed money from the owners, also of the Oad caste, is not clear, but very likely. They get…

Morning toilette on a drinking water pipeline at the outskirts of Bombay, India, close to a colony for Dalits.

A boy hiding behind the laundry in the untouchables slum in Madurai, India.

In the village of Tikha in the far western region of Nepal the majority of the villagers are untouchables. But the village well where all washing and watersupplie for the household is done, is divided into two seperate wells about 50 meters apart,…

In the outskirt of a dumping ground in Bombay, India, the untouchables have their settlement. They all work sorting the garbage, getting a few rupees for plastic they collect.