GalleryCaste-based oppression in India lives today in an environment seemingly hostile to its presence: a nation-state that has long been labeled the “world’s largest democracy;” a progressive and protective constitution; a system of laws designed to proscribe and punish acts of discrimination on the basis of caste; broad-based programs of affirmative action that include […]
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GalleryHidden Apartheid – Caste Discrimination Against India’s ‘Untouchables’ (Human Rights Watch/CHRGJ, 2007, Publication)
Other key reports, Publications, South Asia
Hidden Apartheid was produced as a “shadow report” to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in advance of its February 2007 consideration of a report by the government of India.
CERD is a body of independent experts responsible for monitoring states’ compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All […]
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