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The silenced letter: 60-year-old Dalit rape victim fights to restore her SC name (The Indian Express)
Video of Dalit family allegedly stripped by police creates storm on social media (The Hindu)
Protest against cop for ‘stripping’ dalit family (The Times of India)
A day after a video showing a dalit family, allegedly stripped by a cop in Dankaur for complaining against "police inaction", went viral, protests flared on Friday as other people joined relatives of the family to demand justice.
Distribute Laptops to SC-ST Students By December: Social Welfare Minister (New Indian Express)
An uncommon fight for common land (The Times of India)
As per a provision of the Punjab village Common Land Act, 1961, 33% of the total village common farmland is reserved for Dalit families. But this is rarely followed in practice. "Rich farmers, in connivance with panchayat and rural development officials, use dummy Dalits to bid for the lands," says Gurmukh Mann, general secretary of the Zameen Prapati Sangharsh Committee (ZPSC) which is anchoring the movement across Punjab's villages.
Dalit anger erupts – Police bias contributes to flare-ups in Haryana (The Tribune)
SC/BC employees protest outside DC office (The Tribune)
Scholarship eludes Dalit students (The Hindu)
Scraping dry toilets with their bare hands: Shocking survey shows 1.56 lakh rural households ignore ban on manual scavenging (Daily Mail Online)
Yatra against caste violence (The Hindu)
Dalit women allege the State police were indifferent to the sufferings of victims belonging to the lower caste
ILO Resource Handbook for ending manual scavenging
The International Labour Organisation have now released the ILO Resource Handbook, a very useful tool in combating caste-based forced labour, and have also made a short summary of the handbook.
Dalit child beaten and Dalits attacked by 50 men because a child’s ball fell into an RSS (dominant caste) campus – police neglect to protect (Scroll.in)
It is hard to say what left a bigger scar on the Dalit residents of Rajendra Nagar locality in Sonepat recently: a violent attack on them by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh men that injured over a dozen people, or the compromise they were driven to sign promising not to seek any legal remedy against their assailants.
Atrocity cases rise, conviction rate remains low in Marathwada (The Times of India)
Denial and diversion of Plan Fund: The Great Adivasi-Dalit Rip-off | Tehelka.com
Article on the denial and diversion of huge money meant for Dalits & Adivasi - depriving these marginalised groups of their budget allocations over three decades
Video interviews: Implementing Laws Prohibiting Manual Scavenging (UN India)
Implementing Laws Prohibiting Manual Scavenging
Shocking Stories of Caste Discrimination at Public Hearing (The New Indian Express)
Indian Minister says that manual scavenging persisists and the implementation of the manual scavenging act is being monitored
In a written reply to the Indian House of Parliament (Lok Sabha), the Indian Social Justice and Empowerment Minister, Thaawar Chand Gehlot, said that the practice of manual scavenging still persists in various parts of the country. He added that because previous laws banning the practice had proved inadequate, parliament had enacted the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, the implementation of which is now be monitored.
India’s sewer cleaners keep working despite ban on job (LA Times)
By Parth M.N.