3. Reform: Filling the gaps in the implementation of the Declaration 35 .Rural Development Centre (RDC) Thank you Mr.Chair, My name is Pritika, from the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights on behalf of Rural Development Center India. Communities Discrimination on Work and Descent, which includes the Dalit community where I am from, experience discriminatory practices which are not limited to racism or our physical appearance. Perceived social hierarchies paired with the notion of “purity and pollution”, varying degrees of dictated endogamy and forced physical segregation create a complex cultural web of unwritten practices. The Haratins in Africa, the Roma people scattered across the globe, the Burakumin in Japan, and the Quilombolas in Brazil are a selection of various groups who experience oppression through discrimination on work and descent. In addition, sexual violence, gender-based violence, and the enslavement of women and girls and control of their reproductive rights is a common enforcement mechanism of the imposed “social order” those communities face Within this context I wish to share my recommendations:  Beyond establishing protection mechanism for one specific group and call them by their names, the recognition for the work and descent based and hierarchical oppression must be recognized together with all the communities which it affects.  To establish a working group to examine the gaps in protection for Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent.  My second recommendation is to establish a UN International year on the Rights of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent to allow focused and sustained attention on the topic.  I also appeal to member states to support us to pass create a resolution recognising the unique discriminatory practices affecting all Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent. Thank you.