Human Rights Education with Adivasi Women in Kerala

Description

This short documentary records an IARF human-rights education programme with Adivasi women in Kerala, India. Participants describe discrimination experienced in everyday life, including exclusion from upper-caste social events and denial of access to shared wells and water sources. The programme creates space to identify such treatment as a question of rights rather than an unavoidable feature of social hierarchy.

The film also documents the religious and cultural context of the community, including nature-centred practices and the relationship between Adivasi identity, religion and social equality. Through group discussion, visual materials and community education, the programme links freedom of religion or belief with caste discrimination, Indigenous rights and women’s dignity. It is an early audiovisual record of IARF’s community-based human-rights education work in India.