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  • Our Mission

    Dalit Freedom Network UK is working to bring freedom, hope and justice to India's Dalits (Untouchables) by helping end Dalit trafficking and slavery. Almost half of all those people who are trafficked or in modern slavery around the world today are Dalits in India. Read More
  • Join Our Campaign

    DFN UK needs ordinary people like you to help us achieve extraordinary things. Become a Dalit Freedom Champion and help us by raising awareness or lobbying for change or fundraising or starting a Dalit Freedom Action Group. Read More
  • Free A Dalit Child

    For only £15 a month you can sponsor the education of a Dalit boy or girl and help them escape from the cycle of poverty, discrimination and exploitation. Without our schools, between 30 and 40% of our pupils would be trafficked or in bonded labour. Read More
  • How far will you go?

    Walk it? Run it? Cycle it? 50km and 100km sponsored events to raise funds for the work of Dalit Freedom Network UK to help end slavery and human trafficking of India's Dalits. Will you take the challenge? Read More
  • Break The Chains

    Help DFN UK break the chains of ritual sex slavery in India by donating to our Jogini Prevention and Awareness project. When Dalit girls are dedicated as young children to be Joginis, they have no idea that when they reach puberty they will be forced into ritualised prostitution. Read More
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News Headlines

  • Take on a summer challenge: help India's Dalits +

    Dalit Freedom Network supporters are rising to the challenge this summer, and helping our fight to end the human trafficking and slavery of India’s Dalits (Untouchables) through various sponsored activities. As well as running, walking and cycling challenges, DFN UK is also announcing the Happy Habit Challenge as a creative Read More
  • Seven more Dalit girls freed from ritual sex slavery +

    Over the last few months, Dalit Freedom Network has prevented the dedication of seven more Dalit girls as Joginis in the state of Andhra Pradesh, and dozens more are being helped to escape through economic empowerment programmes. Joginis are dedicated to a goddess from as young as the age of Read More
  • India commits to a world free of human trafficking +

    In a bold statement to the UN General Assembly last week (14 May), Indian Ambassador Asoke Kumar Mukerji announced that “India is firmly committed to a world free of human trafficking”. This marks a significant step forward for a country that took almost a decade before it ratified the UN Read More
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Real Life Stories

  • HIV/AIDS is an occupational hazard for ritual sex slaves like Shanti, but when her daughter dies from the disease her whole world falls apart. Read More
  • Ruchika was given to a group of men to satisfy their sexual desires by village leaders who had pressured her family to dedicate her as a Devadasi. Read More
  • Dedicated to be a Devadasi when only 6 years old, Malvika was desperate to escape from this ritual sex slavery. Read More
  • Manjula began work in the matchstick factory when she was four years old, her family trapped in bonded labour. Read More
  • When 13-year-old Balamma was raped by a stranger in her own room, her mother told her, "This is your destiny, to be a Jogini". Read More
  • When Roshini, a Dalit girl, failed to earn enough as a rag picker on the city rubbish tip, her parents forced her into prostitution. Read More
  • Dedicated as a Devadasi when only 8 years old, Yama was trafficked into a brothel as a ritual sex slave after reaching puberty. Read More
  • Sunita was trafficked into domestic servitude at the age of 16, sexually abused by her trafficker and beaten by her employers. Read More
  • When she was 18 years old, Premila's parents sold her to a Punjabi man to be his 'wife' only to be abused by him and his friends. Read More
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More Featured Pages

  • Free A Dalit Child
  • Break The Chains
  • Action Pack
  • Around the UK
  • Web Watch
  • Parliament Watch

Sponsor the education of a Dalit child to give them hope and opportunities to break free of exploitation.

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Your donations can help save young Dalit girls from ritual sex slavery through this groundbreaking project.

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The essential resource pack for Action Groups and Champions, packed full of ideas, info, stories and guides.

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What's happening around the UK featuring news from Dalit Freedom Action Groups and Champions.

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Latest news and articles from the world wide web related to Dalit trafficking and slavery

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Parliamentary debates, questions, statements on issues related to Dalit trafficking and slavery in India

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