Manu Bheel is still being denied access to justice ten years after his family was kidnapped in the Sindh province of Pakistan
Manisha and Jhakondra’s families tried to deny them the right to marriage on free will in Nepal’s Far Western Province
Selected cases
Cases illustrating discrimination
- Turn on the tap, bring in good health | WaterAid India
- Report: Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers (Wateraid)
- Japan – A History of Denial ~ Minority Stories
- No end in sight to plight of Dalit flood victims (case, Nepal, 2017)
- My ambition is to be a political leader (FEDO, case, 2017, Nepal)
- At first I didn’t feel able to, but now I can, and I put my views forward. (FEDO, case, Nepal, 2017)
- ‘We are now respected, we can access funds, we speak out to say what we want’ (FEDO, case, Nepal, 2017)
- ‘We stand in solidarity against discrimination and have a unique bond.’ (Dalit women, case, Nepal, 2017)
- ‘I am a strong woman now and I am changing my community for the better’ (Dalit women, case, Nepal, 2017)
- We can speak up and claim our rights (Dalit women, case, Nepal, 2017)
- Nepal – Houses for Dalits limited to paper
- Dalits of Bajura village cannot vote freely
- Nepal – Dalit fined for touching barn
- Dalit thrashed for entering temple in Bode Barsain Municipality
- Nepal – Dalit children crush stones to buy books
- Dalit girls learn about their rights in the villages of Rautahat (DSNF)
- Why India’s “Untouchable” Women Are The Targets Of Rape & How They Are Fighting Back (Oye Times)
- A new business class: Dalits who turned first-generation entrepreneurs (Indian Express)
- Are we still in dark age? Children of cobblers treated like dirt (The Daily Star – Bangladesh)
- Dalits are “skilled, honest and industrious” – International Dalit Solidarity Network
- “Caste Is Not Culture, Caste Is Criminal” say Dalit activists at HRC26 side event
- 100 Days Against Caste Discrimination – Pledge Your Commitment | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Caravan
- New report: Low caste children suffer in India’s cottonseed industry
- Still I rise (Elle India Magazine, article on US Dalit woman, 2014)
- “For Nepal’s Dalits, Struggle Continues Amidst Slow Progress” (IPS Video reportage)
- Dalit children to miss out on education (The Hindu)
- Dalit women fight! (IDSN leaflet on Dalit Women)
- India Rape Cases Colored by Caste (India Real Time – WSJ)
- Dalit Stops Cleaning Dry Toilets, Becomes Leader (Press)
- Witness: Freeing Women From Cleaning Human Waste (Caste Story, 2014, HRW, Manual Scavnenging, India)