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The Kathmandu Post :: Dalits barred from well
Nepal: Do Not Ignore Voice Of Dalits (OpEd – Eurasia Review)
Dalits students forced to eat separately | The Asian Age
100 Days Against Caste Discrimination – Pledge Your Commitment | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Caravan
Caste Extracts from the US State Department 2014 reports on India, Nepal and Pakistan
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.
Are we still in dark age? Children of cobblers treated like dirt in Magura school (Parittran)
Ten-year-olds are made to clean their school toilets by the teachers. The elders in their families cannot have tea at local stalls or a haircut at the barber’s, and they are not invited to any social event. All these because they are from a caste considered low in the local Hindu community.
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.
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.
End Untouchability Video Campaign
Dalit’s nose cut off for dining with upper castes – The Times of India
New reports: Exclusion and untouchability remain widespread and only 5% marry out of their caste
Report findings recently released from the India Human Development Survey, the India Exclusion Report and the Nepal Multidimensional Social Inclusion Index, document that caste discrimination is very far from being history. In almost all aspects of every-day life statistics indicate that caste discrimination is deep-rooted and widespread.
Children bear the brunt of caste abuses in rural MP – Hindustan Times
From being forced to eat mid-day meals in marked out plates to being asked to sit in the back rows of their classrooms, Dalit schoolchildren across rural Madhya Pradesh face dozens of grim abuses, a new study backed by rights group ActionAid has revealed.
Why Caste Won’t Disappear From India | Shashi Tharoor
The land of exclusion (Frontline – Jayati Ghosh)
Jayati Ghosh - "India may well have the most complex & entrenched system of discrimination & exclusion in the world.
Just 5% of Indian marriages are inter-caste: survey (The Hindu)
30 per cent of rural and 20 per cent of urban households said they practised untouchability Just five per cent of Indians said they had married a person from a different caste, says the first direct estimate of inter-caste marriages in India.
Gender and caste discrimination linked to school dropouts in India: Experts (ummid.com)
Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel Peace Prize Caps Decades of Fighting Child Slavery in India (NYTimes)
Satyarthi himself reveals that witnessing caste discrimination as a child and teenager in India were what fuelled his engagement with fighting for the rights of those who are abused and marginalised. In a New York Times article he recounts how he as a child experienced that a Dalit child did not go to school and was told that this child’s caste determined that he would work as a cobbler. Satyarthi also explains that he, as a teenager, arranged a dinner cooked by Dalits for members of dominant castes. He was infuriated when the dominant castes boycotted the dinner and subsequently shunned Satyarthi’s family. This incident in fact caused him to change his then dominant caste surname to his present Satyarthi, meaning “seeker of truth