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[[File:A delegation of sanitary workers from various parts of the country working with the Sulabh International with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi on 16, May 2006.jpg|thumb|A delegation of sanitary workers from various parts of the country working with the Sulabh International with the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi on 16, May 2006]] | [[File:A delegation of sanitary workers from various parts of the country working with the Sulabh International with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi on 16, May 2006.jpg|thumb|A delegation of sanitary workers from various parts of the country working with the Sulabh International with the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi on 16, May 2006]] | ||
'''Sulabh | '''Sulabh International''' is an [[India]]-based social service organization that works to promote [[human rights]], environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources of energy, [[waste management]] and social reforms through education. The organization counts 50,000 volunteers.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/05/stories/2008100555200700.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007080718/http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/05/stories/2008100555200700.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2008-10-07 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Sulabh International gets U.N. recognition | date=2008-10-05}}</ref> Sulabh International is the largest nonprofit organization in India.<ref>{{cite book |last= George |first= Rose. |title= [[The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters]] |publisher= [[Metropolitan Books]] |date=September 2008 |isbn= 978-0-8050-8271-5}}</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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==Criticism== | ==Criticism== | ||
The organization has | The organization has been criticised by Mukul Sharma in his book ''Caste and Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics'' (2017). Sharma writes that the Brahmin and Gandhian activist Bindeshwar Pathak employs patronising and glorifying methods while dealing with caste based occupation like manual scavenging and sanitation work in general.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/666057|doi = 10.1353/bio.2017.0009|title = Brahmanical Activism as Eco-Casteism: Reading the Life Narratives of Bindeshwar Pathak, Sulabh International, and "Liberated" Dalits|year = 2017|last1 = Sharma|first1 = Mukul|journal = Biography|volume = 40|pages = 199–221|s2cid = 149170105}}</ref> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||