It is time to talk about caste in Pakistan and Pakistani diaspora | Pakistan News | Al Jazeera

Challenging The Heteronormative Ideas Of Love | Feminism In India

Discussion of intercaste love in India. Marriages in India not only serve as a tool to exchange wealth through dowry rituals but also act as an institution to strengthen the caste system.

Dalit people’s representative threatened for boycott for calling out caste-based discrimination – Khabarhub Khabarhub

Locals in Beni Municipality in Myagdi district have warned of social boycott and demanded resignation when a local people’s representatives sought legal recourse against the caste-based discrimination.

‘There is a tendency to blame the victim’: More needs to be done to solve India’s rape epidemic | The Independent

‘There is a tendency to blame the victim’: More needs to be done to solve India’s rape epidemic

Looking at mental health through Caste – The Life of Science

Therapeutic techniques work on the assumption that the cause of distress is only within the individual. However, an individual’s mental health is also affected by various forms of systemic discrimination. So for Dalits, therapy involves narrating trauma from one therapist to another, in the hope that they will eventually find a caste-sensitive professional.

Life as an “Untouchable” in India – YouTube

In September 2020, 4 upper caste Thakur men allegedly brutally gang-raped and attacked a 19-year-old Dalit woman in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. She died because of it and the police hurriedly cremated her without the consent of the family. This tragedy led to India actually being forced to deal with its caste problem. In this documentary, we look at the intersection of caste, gender and violence specifically against Dalit women in India.

‘Made me sit on office floor’: TN Dalit panchayat president alleges caste-based discrimination- The New Indian Express

Alleging that the panchayat vice-president, a caste Hindu, has been making her sit on the floor of the panchayat office because of her caste, the Dalit president of the Gurumurthy Naickenpatti panchayat, M Muthulakshmi submitted a petition to the district collector R Kannan on Wednesday.

Caste and Class in Higher Education Enrolments : Challenges in Conceptualising Social Inequality | Economic and Political Weekly

The National Sample Survey 2014 data is used to explore the character of class inequality, over and beyond that of caste. The caste break-up of various social classes suggests that caste inequalities are greater amongst the more educated classes.

Hathras rape: CBI charges four accused with gangrape, murder

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday said the four accused in the gangrape and torture of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras in September were formally charged with the crimes, reported NDTV. The development in the case came more than three months after the incident, which sparked a countrywide outrage.

Majority of Indian domestic workers ‘work seven days a week with no annual leave’ | The Independent

A survey of domestic workers revealed across six northeastern Indian states, a large majority of maids, cooks and other domestic staff worked seven days a week and were not given a single day of annual leave without having their pay docked.

‘There is a tendency to blame the victim’: More needs to be done to solve India’s rape epidemic | The Independent

Rape culture in India. A social environment where sexual violence is normalised, impunity is widespread, and victim-blaming rife; meaning rape becomes increasingly common.

India’s Sanitation Workers Seek Immediate Help From The Government | Amnesty International India

India’s Sanitation Workers seek immediate help from the government, as they fight for better safety gears and equal treatment.

“I’m Going To Live A Leader’s Life And Die A Leader Too”: Manisha Mashaal

The ongoing conversations on gender and caste in the feminist discourse emphasise on the importance of Dalit women’s voices. The lives and stories of women from marginalized sections of the society are important starting points for understanding this intersection of gender and caste. One such strong and resilient voice is the voice of Manisha Mashaal. Manisha Mashaal is a grassroots anti-caste activist, an orator and a singer.

30 years of SC/ST PoA Act: Lacks and loopholes – TwoCircles.net

On 5 November, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court ruled that insulting a Dalit or tribal person would not amount to an offence in itself, that could be registered under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (1989). The abused must prove that they suffered on grounds of their caste or tribal identity.

Indian factory workers supplying major brands allege routine exploitation – BBC News

Indian workers in factories supplying the supermarket chains Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury's, and the fashion brand Ralph Lauren, told the BBC they are being subjected to exploitative conditions.

UP Dalit Girl Dies of Burn Injuries, Family Blames Kin of Rapist

Almost three months after she was allegedly raped on Independence Day, a 15-year-old Dalit girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr died of burn injuries at a Delhi hospital on Tuesday, 17 November, allegedly after being set ablaze by relatives and acquaintances of the rape accused, who is now behind bars.

Hathras Case: Angela Davis, Other Activists Express Solidarity, Demand Action

Several prominent activists, academics and scholars from across the globe have joined hands to condemn the Hathras case, saying an alarming number of rapes and killings have been reported in India just in the last month.

India’s lower-caste Dalit women raped ‘to keep them in their place’: report | South China Morning Post

Rights groups said men from dominant castes frequently use sexual violence as a weapon to reinforce caste and gender hierarchies, which place India’s 200 million Dalits on the lowest rung of an ancient caste hierarchy.

Child marriage and child labour: Slavery is not dead in sugarcane (COUNTERVIEW.ORG)

In August 2020, Global March Against Child Labour released an evidence-based report, providing an overview of the situation of child labour with a gender lens in sugarcane harvesting in India. The report highlights that children are pushed into hazardous child labour due to structural poverty among harvesters, most of whom are from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, also referred to as DBA (Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi/Tribal) in this article, because of exploitative hiring practices resulting in debt bondage. It was found that traditional gender-based norms contributed significantly to child labour by normalising unequal wages and unpaid family work.

Why a 1995 Beijing Conference Was Significant for the Dalit Women’s Movement (The Wire)

“the ‘Beijing Platform for Action’… laid the roadmap for ‘gender mainstreaming’ in public policies, recognising the distinct disadvantages faced by women from marginalised communities.”