The draft UN Principles and Guidelines for the Effective Elimination of Discrimination based on Work and Descent is a comprehensive legal framework  developed to eliminate discrimination based on work and descent, the UN terminology for caste discrimination.Based on existing international human rights principles and obligations, the framework proposes general and special measures to be taken by multiple stakeholders. Although still a draft, the UN Principles and Guidelines constitute a strong tool to encourage specific anti-discrimination legislation and relevant policy measures for governments and their agencies, UN and other international agencies, educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and the private sector.The soft law framework is the result of a UN study on discrimination based on work and descent undertaken by the former UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.