A Pakistani Dalit activist and human rights defender was released by his abductors on 28 October after having endured 34 days of captivity.

In an interview with US weekly The Nation, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says that caste systems can be removed “through an expression of international outrage”.

UN Rights Official calls on world to end caste discrimination like it did apartheid.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, calls on the international community to ‘come together’ and support caste affected-communities ‘as it did when it helped put an end to apartheid.’