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DALIT DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA
'BJP-RSS oppose Dalit progress': Rahul Gandhi at party briefing calls for FIR over Haldwani 'purification'Rahul Gandhi demanded an FIR against individuals performing a purification ritual. He alleged this ritual reflected the BJP-RSS mindset aga...- Married off at 12, she survived domestic abuse and earned Rs 2 per day. She is known as India’s first female entrepreneur. What is Kalpana Saroj's networth?Kalpana Saroj’s story of surviving domestic abuse and a failed suicide attempt to taking charge of her life and turning an almost bankrupt ...
- Eight parties unite to form Nepal’s ‘Progressive Front’Eight Nepalese political parties have formed a new alliance called the Progressive Front. This new political front is based on shared polit...
- Caste still biggest admission form in India, need anti-discrimination law: Rahul GandhiRahul Gandhi remembered Rohith Vemula on his death anniversary. He stated that the situation for Dalit students on campuses has not improve...
- Karnataka CM writes to Rahul Gandhi on preparing draft of Rohith Vemula ActKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has directed his legal team to draft the Rohith Vemula Act, aiming to prevent discrimination in educa...
- California becomes first US state to add caste as a protected category in its anti-discrimination lawsThe California State Senate has passed a bill by a vote of 34-1 to make caste a 'protected category' in the state's anti-discrimination law...
- Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discriminationCalls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora...
- Child labour, caste-based discrimination, poverty closely interlinked in India: UN Special RapporteurIn Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe, between 4 and 6 per cent of children are said to be in child labour, and...
- California sues Cisco for bias based on Indian caste systemCalifornia regulators have sued Cisco Systems, saying an engineer faced discrimination at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters because...
- Opposition seeks probe into JNU student's death, govt assures actionParliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar assured the House of "suitable action" and said the entire House shared the grief over the deat...
- Religious minorities, Dalits face discrimination in India: ReportThe report recommends the US Government to put religious freedom and human rights at the heart of all trade, aid, and diplomatic interactio...
- Give land to Dalits as most atrocities happen to the landless: Pardeep Attri, Ambedkar Caravan"Since Dalits don’t have space in mainstream media, every single whisper against atrocities counts," Pardeep Attri said.
- Send 10,000 Dalit students every semester to foreign universities: Suraj Milind YengdeSuraj Milind Yengde, 28, an associate scholar at the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, speaks about e...
- The new-age Dalits are unapologetic, unashamed of their identityThe Dalit born after the 1991 economic reforms are wearing the Dalit tag as a badge of honour and needs more than the tokenism of temple en...
- South Asian groups hold candle-lit vigil over Rohith's deathA number of South Asian groups held a candle-lit vigil outside the Indian High Commission here to protest the death of a dalit scholar in H...
- PM Modi's late response to scholar suicide 'baffling': Shashi TharoorFormer Union Minister Shashi Tharoor attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "almost-a-week late" response on the suicide of Dalit sc...
- United States holds 1st global conference on 'Defending Dalit Rights'Caste-based discrimination is widely practised in South Asian nations like India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- US Congressional resolution introduced to condemn untouchabilityAn influential American lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the US Congress asking India, Nepal and other South Asian countries to end ...
- Vienna clash may put caste in global spotlightCaste fingerprints on the sensational Vienna shootout among Sikhs could result in renewed international pressure for recognition of caste-b...
- Caste system is racial discrimination: UN rights panelUN Human Rights Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has controverted India’s stand at its recent Geneva hearings ...
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