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Manual Scavengers Movement

EDM number 2305 in 2007-08, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 21/10/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Human rights and International development.

That this House notes with immense concern that some 1.3 million Dalits, formerly called untouchables, in India, mostly women, are still employed as manual scavengers, a job which consists of removing human excrement from dry toilets and sewers using basic tools such as flimsy thin boards, not even shovels, and baskets, despite this inhumane practice being abolished by law in 1993; welcomes the initiative of Safai Karmachari Andolan, the Manual Scavengers Movement, and the Dalit Solidarity Network (UK) to work together to try to eradicate manual scavenging in the whole of India by the start of the Delhi Commonwealth Games in October 2010; and calls on the Department for International Development to assist the Indian government to implement its own legislation and re-training programmes and to end, once and for all, the inhumane and dangerous practice of manual scavenging.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jeremy Corbyn21/10/2008Islington NorthLabourProposed
Bob Russell21/10/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Harry Cohen21/10/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSeconded
Andrew George21/10/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Durkan21/10/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Andrew Dismore22/10/2008HendonLabourSeconded
Jim Devine22/10/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Robert Wareing22/10/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Mike Hancock22/10/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton22/10/2008GowerLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell22/10/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell22/10/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Elfyn Llwyd22/10/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Lynne Jones22/10/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins23/10/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Paul Keetch23/10/2008HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew23/10/2008StroudLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard23/10/2008WalthamstowLabourSigned
Tony Baldry23/10/2008BanburyConservativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins27/10/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Mark Hunter27/10/2008CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Davies28/10/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
John Leech28/10/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell28/10/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alan Simpson28/10/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis28/10/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle29/10/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
Frank Cook29/10/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer29/10/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Phil Willis29/10/2008Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson29/10/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes30/10/2008North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington30/10/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster30/10/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Desmond Turner30/10/2008Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Vincent Cable03/11/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Annette Brooke04/11/2008Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley04/11/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Edward Davey06/11/2008Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Iddon10/11/2008Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady10/11/2008South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Andrew Stunell10/11/2008Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Pelling10/11/2008Croydon CentralIndependentSigned
Mark Williams11/11/2008CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Williams12/11/2008Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Walter13/11/2008North DorsetConservativeSigned
Evan Harris17/11/2008Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Godsiff17/11/2008Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Paul Burstow18/11/2008Sutton and CheamLiberal DemocratSigned

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