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A Rapist’s Nightmare – Dalit girls fights for justice (The New York Times)
Bitiya, who is from the bottom of the caste system, is fuzzy about her age but thinks she was 13 in 2012 when four upper-caste village men grabbed her as she worked in a field, stripped her and raped her. They filmed the assault and warned her that if she told anyone they would release the video and also kill her brother. So Bitiya initially kept quiet. Six weeks later Bitiya’s father saw a 15-year-old boy watching a pornographic video — and was aghast to see his daughter in it. The men were selling the video in a local store for a dollar a copy. Bitiya is crying in the video and is held down by the men, so her family accepted that she was blameless. Her father went to the police to file a report. Nicholas Kristof/The New York Times
Two sisters to be raped as punishment for brothers inter-caste relationship – demand justice (Amnesty International appeal and petition)
CII to promote women Dalit entrepreneurs (The Hindu)
Yatra against caste violence (The Hindu)
Dalit women allege the State police were indifferent to the sufferings of victims belonging to the lower caste
Dalit women travel through Odisha to map caste violence against dalit women (TwoCircles.net)
Action alert: a 17.1 % increase in crimes against Dalits
An 11-year-old Dalit girl was brutally beaten up on 13 June in the village of Ganeshpura in Madhya Pradesh, because her shadow accidentally fell on the food of a higher-caste man when she was drawing water from a hand pump.
Dalit women stripped, beaten, paraded naked in UP village (India Today)
Villagers of Shahjahanpur's Hareva in Uttar Pradesh attacked the five Dalit women because their daughter had allegedly eloped with a Dalit's son.
Fighting the Dalit women’s fight with art and activism (The Guardian)
The Dalit-American transmedia artist Thenmozhi Soundararajan turns a critical lens on the intersection of caste discrimination and sexual violence in India. By Amanda Holpuch.
Rape of Dalit women registers 500% increase since 2001, RTI reveals (The Indian Express)
Rape of Dalit women rose in Gujarat over the last 13 years, reaching the highest in 2014, higher by 500 per cent since 2001.
Shame! Dalit girl set on fire for pursuing education (Yahoo News India)
As per the victim’s statement to the police, the student was alone in her hut and cooking food when the accused— Dhiraj Yadav, his brothers Arvind and Dinesh, and their father Ram Pravesh Yadav— barged in, dragged her out, poured kerosene on her and set her on fire. “They didn’t like that I was pursuing my education because they were failing in school every year. A few months ago, Dhiraj somehow got a photograph of me and tried to blackmail me. A major altercation broke out between our families on the issue,” she was quoted as saying to the police in the community health centre. The victim was admitted with 70 per cent burn injuries.
Dalit and tribal women attacked by police in Odisha capital (OdishaSunTimes.com)
NACDOR activists Lathi charged by police
From Slavery to Self Reliance: A Story of Dalit Women in South India (Inter Press Service)
By Stella Paul. The pair leads a simple yet contented life – they subsist on half a dollar a day, stitch their own clothes and participate in schemes to educate their community in the Bellary district of the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka. But not so very long ago, both women were slaves. They have fought an exhausting battle to get to where they are today, pushing against two evils that lurk in this mineral-rich state: the practice of sexual slavery in Hindu temples, and forced labour in the illegal mines that dot Bellary District, home to 25 percent of India’s iron ore reserves. Finally free of the yoke of dual-slavery, they are determined to preserve their hard-won existence, humble though it may be.
In India, a Broken System Leaves a ‘Broken’ People Powerless (Inter Press Service)
"Men would shuffle in and out of my room at night as if I had no right over my body, only they did. It broke me down completely." -- A 27-year-old Dalit woman, forced to serve as a 'temple slave' in South India
Don’t mention the apartheid: caste discrimination and poverty in South Asia (Aidan McQuade, Director of Anti-Slavery International – Equal Times)
Teenage Dalit girl raped, body found hanging from tree (ABP Live)
In a grim reminder of the infamous Badaun incident, a teenage Dalit girl was raped and her body was later found hanging from a tree in Nighasan area of the district, police said on Thursday.
India’s ‘Manual Scavengers’ Rise Up Against Caste Discrimination (IPS)
A Dalit woman stands outside a dry toilet located in an upper caste villager’s home in Mainpuri, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The village has witnessed major violence against those who have tried to leave the profession of ‘manual scavenging’. Credit: Shai Venkatraman/IPS
Photostory on the Dalit women self-respect march in November 2014
Made by the organisers of the march
India, Enforce Protection For “Untouchables” (World Policy Institute)
Because India’s jurisprudence remains ill-equipped to stringently provide legal protection for Dalits, human traffickers easily kidnap and lure vulnerable Dalit women and girls into prostitution and child marriage and men and children into bonded labor in factories and on farms.
From Mumbai’s red-light district to UN award – Features – Al Jazeera English
Dalit woman, who escaped life of poverty with full scholarship to Bard College last year, wins Youth Courage award.