GalleryCaste systems obstruct South Asian education
A new UN report finds that India is still home to the world’s largest illiterate population. The report states that caste systems in South Asia have a negative effect on education opportunities.
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GalleryHomeless suffer in India’s freezing winter
A cold spell in the north of India has cost hundreds of lives among homeless people. A significant number are believed to be Dalits.
GalleryUN experts visit Dalits in Bangladesh
Two Independent Experts - on water and sanitation and on human rights and extreme poverty - expressed serious concern about the human rights situation of Dalits during their visit to Bangladesh earlier this month.
Call to action as Nepal’s Dalits rally
Nepal urged to end caste discrimination by enshrining human rights in its new constitution. Thousand of Dalits demonstrate in the country’s capital.
Dalits form human chain in Dhaka
The Dalit community in Bangladesh has urged the government to enact a special law that makes caste discrimination a punishable offence.
GalleryDalits on dignity march in New Delhi
The National Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR) has submitted a memorandum to Indian PM Manmohan Singh. The 80 demands are aimed at empowering the poor and deprived.
GalleryExperts condemn India’s UN stance on caste
India should adopt the UN principles and guidelines to end caste discrimination, a group of eminent panelists said at a press briefing in New Delhi on 4 December.
Gallery“We are not thought of as human”
The Guardian has published an investigation into the lives of Dalit women in Bangladesh. The author of the article, Mary Griffin, came second in the British newspaper’s International Development Journalism Competition.
GalleryAI USA urges Obama to address Dalit issues
Abuses against Dalits are listed among several pressing human rights concerns in an open letter from Amnesty International USA to US President Barack Obama on the eve of the Indian Prime Minister’s state visit to Washington.
Report: Caste discrimination rife in UK
Tens of thousands of people of South Asian origin face caste discrimination in the workplace, the classroom and the doctor’s surgery, says a new study by the Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance (ACDA). The Alliance is campaigning to make caste discrimination illegal in the UK.