UN human rights officials at the United Nations Human Rights Council side event #DalitWomenFight against Caste-based violence on June 21, 2018, called for immediate efforts to end rampant caste-based violence against women and address a culture […]
Read the full press release from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch:
(New York) – Indian authorities should cease arrests of Dalit rights activists for their work, Amnesty International India and Human Rights Watch said today. The […]
Please find the full statement below
Joint NGO statement for meeting between the ECOSOC Committee on NGOs and accredited NGOs
(Delivered 22 June 2018 – New York)
Thank you Mr. Chair
I am […]
IDSN is supporting the side-event #DalitWomenFight against Caste-Based Violence taking place on 21 June in Geneva, in connection with the 38th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The side-event will explore and discuss […]
IDSN has issued a factsheet covering all the details of IDSN’s case, including over 80 questions received from India over the past 10 years and statements of UN experts addressing IDSN’s case.
In 2017, a […]
The Concluding Observations of the May 2018 review of Nepal, by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), include dozens of remarks relating to caste-based discrimination and several strongly worded recommendations […]
You can follow social media updates on the Yatra via @dalitwomenfight both on FaceBook and Twitter.
AIDMAM have also issued the following press release with more details on the Yatra:
April 22, 2018 Jaipur
All India Dalit Mahila […]
In the press release on the launch of the tool Amnesty India writes:
Over 200 alleged hate crimes in 2017 in India, reveals ‘Halt the hate’ website
In 2017, an alarming number of alleged hate crimes […]
IDSN Executive Chair and DSN-UK Director, Meena Varma, has been shortlisted for a ‘Secularist of the year 2018 award’ by the The National Secular Society in the UK . The award ‘recognises a campaigner or […]
Human Rights Defenders’ Alert India have issued the following urgent appeal:
Urgent Appeal for Action – Kerala: Dalit activists brutally assaulted, arrested and detained by police for seeking action on encroachment of public property in Kochi, […]