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Unprotected, unpaid or unrecognised: Christian workers on the frontline in Pakistan’s fight against Covid-19 (Institute of Development Studies)
“Social distancing is nothing new to us (Pakistani Christians) … People usually hate the sight of a sanitation worker, let alone coming close, shaking our hand, or eating and drinking with us. Unofficially, the caste-based ‘untouchable’ stigma remains synonymous with Christians, because over 90% of them come from what was the Dalit caste, the poorest of the poor.”
The underlying threat of social distancing (The Record – Nepal)
“Social distancing also has a dark and ominous side. In South Asia, where it has unfurled into a spider’s web of practices, it also directs violence, exclusion and bigotry upon marginalised people whose only ‘sin’ is caste, occupation or descent.”
Sewer Cleaners Wanted in Pakistan: Only Christians Need Apply (The New York Times)
In Pakistan, descendants of lower-caste Hindus who converted to Christianity centuries ago still find themselves marginalized, relegated to dirty jobs and grim fates.
Pakistan’s first Dalit woman senator to champion girls’ education (Reuters)
As the first Dalit woman senator in Pakistan, Krishna Kumari Kohli, has an ambitious to-do list, from improving the health and education of women and girls to tackling honour killings, kidnappings and child marriage.
‘Caste-based discrimination must be criminalised’ | Karachi | thenews.com.pk
Dalits plan extensive drive to attain due status, rights (Dawn, 2016)
HYDERABAD: The scheduled caste Hindu communities along with some other religiously oppressed castes in Sindh have chalked out a detailed programme aimed at attaining their due status in society and work for their rights and welfare.
Shackles of caste: No end to discrimination against ‘achoot’ (The Express Tribune)
Forty-five-year-old Choko Bheel still remembers the day when his father was penalised for fetching fresh water from a well belonging to an upper-caste Hindu in Umerkot district.
Shackles of caste: No end to discrimination against ‘achoot’ – The Express Tribune
‘Christians required only as sweepers’ (The Friday Times)
Pakistani Christians Fight Back (New York Times)
Caste Rules The Roost Across South Asia (Tehelka.com)
Unstoppable: Two workers risking lives to fight bonded labour in Sindh
Veeru escaped with her family and after months of fighting for her family and begging the police to protect them, she finally found refuge in a camp inhabited by other former bonded labourers. It was then that she decided to dedicate her life to freeing others like her.
Newsletter from Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network (November 2014)
Caste struggle and politics in Pakistan (The Nation)
Dalit Network calls for recovery of workers’ bodies from caved-in well in Pakistan (PDSN Press Release)
The Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network took action to urge the government to recover the bodies of three scheduled caste workers buried alive while digging a well.
Pakistan drought: government accused over child deaths in Sindh province (The Guardian)
Authorities culpable over failure to provide Tharparkar region with adequate healthcare and infrastructure, claim NGOs. By Zofeen Ebrahim