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The Death of Merit: Caste and Education | EYEZINE
Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns (Different Truths, 2016)
Lenin takes us through the sordid and macabre accounts of contemporary slavery in brick kilns, based on actual accounts of the hapless victims. Driven by hunger and starvation, many children die of malnutrition. When the bonded labourers ask for money for the treatment of sick children, they are beaten up, blue-black. Children die, young girls and women are sexually exploited. People cannot escape the debt traps and clutches of the brick kiln owners. They are hounded. Police are hand-in- gloves with the brick kiln owners. Against all odds, his organisation, Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), has stood up for the cause of the Dalit and Musahar victims. There is a new dawn of dignity and identity for hopeless victims. Here’s a special story, an in-depth report to combat and resolve the problems, on the occasion of May Day by Different Truths (DT) and PVCHR.
India: Violence Against Dalits on the Rise (The Diplomat, 2016)
Despite robust laws, violence against India’s most oppressed people continues to rise.
Status of Dalits in India: Children and women & Access to water and sanitation (NCDHR)
Twilight children – Disadvantaged caste working to meet Global market demands (Opinion – The Hindu)
To meet the demands of global markets, Indian manufacturers have replaced adult workers with teenaged, mostly female, workers drawn from agriculturally impoverished regions and disadvantaged castes.
Harsh Mander on how Dalit children continue to bear the brunt of untouchability (The Hindu)
Dalit girl severely beaten up after her shadow falls on high caste man (The Indian Express)
Teacher Jailed for Forcing Dalit Boy to Clean Faeces (The New Indian Express)
Response sought in the Dian case along with trafficking of child labour
High Court Serious; Asks the Government to Respond
Sir said I was a Dalit so I couldn’t be part of Puja: Odisha schoolgirl (The Indian Express)
After Dalit Teen’s Rapists Tried To Blackmail Her, She’s Speaking Out To Create Change (Huffington Post)
Vaibhav And Divya’s Murder: A Culmination Of Caste Discrimination And Violence Against Dalits (CounterCurrents.org)
A Preliminary Fact Finding Report on Dalit Family Set Afire At Sunped, Haryana, India
In The Dead Of The Night, Hatred Burns (Tehelka)
Two Dalit children were killed in Faridabad district when their house was set on fire. A close look at the tragedy and its aftermath.
14-Year-Old Dalit Boy Charged With Theft of Pigeon Found Dead; Family Accuses Cops (NDTV)
In a Rajasthan Village, Dalit Children Are Afraid To Go To School (NDTV)
Child murdering caste society (Round Table India)
Teacher beats up Dalit boy for touching non-Dalits’ meal, held (Times of India)
Dalit student beaten for touching mid-day meal plates (DNA)
Dalit girl of Theni village escapes from “hell” in spinning mill (The Hindu)
The girl, employed by a spinning mill was brutally attacked by the mill owners after trying to escape – says NGO demanding the arrest of the owners.