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The UK Hindus divided over caste – BBC News
The History Of Ambedkarite Movement In United Kingdom | Countercurrents
BBC iPlayer – The One Show – 01/12/2016
Why hasn’t caste discrimination against Dalits been outlawed in Britain? (Inews, 2016)
Domestic servitude inflicted on Dalits, the ‘untouchable’ lowest Indian caste, was supposed to have been made illegal in Britain. Why hasn’t the law been implemented?
Consultation on Issue of Caste and UK Equality Act 2010 | The National Law Review
Caste Supremacists Oppose Anti-Caste Legislation in Britain (The Milli Gazette Online, 2016)
Pro-caste activists have intensified their campaign to lobby and pressurise the British Parliament to stop it from making caste discrimination a crime in the UK.
British Indians divided over anti-caste law (The Hindu, 2016)
The British government is yet to announce details of its planned consultation on incorporating protection against caste discrimination into the U.K. equality law, but within the Indian community the debate is already in full swing.
DSN-UK “joining hands to end racial discrimination” with CERD « DSN-UK
IDSN at the CERD consultation with civil society: joining hands to end racial discrimination (IDSN News, 2016)
On 23 November 2016, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) held a consultation with civil society organisations “Joining hands to end racial discrimination”. It aimed to reflect on how the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination helped make a difference in combatting racial discrimination and seek views on how to improve and enhance its engagement with civil society.
The challenge to Britain’s anti-slavery ambitions: India
Caste Discrimination Consultation (Hansard UK Parliament, 2016)
Progress the Government have made on the publication of its caste discrimination consultation.
Human Rights Council concludes general debate on racism and racial discrimination
Forthcoming public consultation on caste and Equality Act 2010 (Law & Religion UK 2016)
UK caste groups call on British PM for action (PTI feed, News 2016)
National Secular Society – NSS accuses Government of showing contempt for Parliament and UK’s international obligations on caste discrimination
National Secular Society – UK must honour equality and human rights obligations, NSS tells UN
Caste-based discrimination in the United Kingdom (DSN-UK/IDSN, 2016, Publication)
CERD/C/GBR/CO/21-23 Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (CERD, 2016, Publication)
Blog on Dalit women, violence and manual scavenging – Lynne Featherstone – UK MP
Dalit women and girls often suffer the greatest indignities – most of India’s 1.3 million so-called ‘manual scavengers’ are female. For those unfamiliar with the euphemism, manual scavengers clean up the excrement of other castes with their bare hands to eke out a meagre existence. So I was very keen to meet some of these women and try to understand how they live. You might be surprised to read I came away with some hope! Thanks to a partnership between the DFID-funded Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) programme and the Jan Sahas Development Society (which literally means ‘people’s courage’), Dalit women are being helped to stand up and demand their rights as human beings. Thousands of families have been helped out of manual scavenging and trained in alternate employment. Jan Sahas also brings violence against Dalit women to the attention of the government and media. Of course there is a long way to go yet. I spoke with some Dalit women who had been raped by men from upper castes and are struggling to receive any justice. Though they worked up the courage to report the crimes against them to the police, they and their families have been repaid with threats and intimidation, not just by their rapists but the police themselves. Nevertheless, I found hope in that more and more Dalit women and girls are standing up for themselves and demanding their rights. And when I asked what they thought about their future prospects, it was really heartening to hear a group of Dalit children tell me they were confident their future is going to be brighter than their mothers’.