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EU strengthens relations with India without engaging against caste-based discrimination (Brussels Times)
Study by NGO reveals discrimination against Dalits at cyclone relief camps (The Hindu, 2018)
Opinion | Twitter’s Caste Problem (The New York Times)
Dalits and other Indian gender, religious, tribal and ethnic minorities are regularly harassed on Twitter by right-wing troll armies.
‘Tell Everyone We Scalped You!’ How Caste Still Rules in India (New York Times)
The New York Times reports on how caste still rules in India and how violence against Dalits is rising in tandem with Dalits trying to claim their rights.
‘Call Me Priya’: film sparks debate about India’s textile industry
India not free 71 years on, rising inequality, unemployment to blame (National Herald)
Dalit women are brewing their own social revolution (Livemint)
‘Society Needs Us, But Only For Cleaning Others’ Dirt’ (The Wire)
India Should Recognise That Manual Scavenging Is Akin to Slavery (TheWire)
Sanitation workers: Deaths of five men cleaning sewer are a blot on India’s capital
Bringing justice close: an experiment in accessing justice with technology (Open Global Rights)
Why we need the term Dalit (Indian Express)
Won’t back off: New turn to India’s caste conflicts (Hindustan Times)
The Mica Children: Fighting for Survival in India’s Deadly Mines (Spiegel online)
Dalit children are facing extremely dangerous working conditions and violations of their basic human rights, working in child labour in mines supplying Mica to the cosmetics industries.
Dalit women’s rights activists to present accounts of caste violence at UNHRC (The Indian Express)
In Meerut, People – Including Children – Were Arrested for Being Dalit
According to the Dalits who spent months in jail, the police specifically asked people their caste and arrested them even if they weren't involved in the Bharat Bandh protest.
Discrimination against Dalits, Muslims in India deeply disturbing, says UN human rights chief
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said he is concerned that criticism of the government is met by claims that it constitutes sedition or a threat to national security.