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Despite Una and Modi’s Pledge, No Respite for Gujarat’s Dalits – The Wire
Living in fear: Dalits still at receiving end of caste atrocities in Uttar Pradesh | india-news | Hindustan Times
Manmohan Vaidya’s quota remarks: Gujarat Dalit activist to return award | The Indian Express
The Dalit Question – Saturday Features – The Kathmandu Post
India blocks funding for IDSN member Navsarjan Trust – International Dalit Solidarity Network
In the latest of a series of blocks on foreign funding to human rights NGOs, the Indian Government has revoked the foreign funding (FCRA) license from Dalit rights NGO Navsarjan Trust. The revocation of the license means that Navsarjan can no longer receive funding from foreign donors and the organisation has had to ask its 80 staff to resign.
My Republica – Less equal
With its foreign funding cancelled, can Gujarat’s oldest Dalit NGO survive? (Scroll.in)
NHRC Notice To Gujarat IG-Prisons On Reports Of Victimisation Of Dalit Prisoners | Live Law
Una flogging case: Dalit leaders urge community member to assemble in Una on Jan 3 | The Indian Express
Corruption, caste keep poor from owning land in northern India | Reuters
Sri Lanka: Caste prejudice & inequalities – Sri Lanka Guardian
Gujarat High Court Grants Bail To 4 In Una Dalit Flogging Case
Caste in doubt – Oped – The Kathmandu Post
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?
Caste oppression exists among Sri Lankan Tamils but is kept under wraps (The New Indian Express, 2016)
Despite the existence of a unified “Tamil” identity, Sri Lankan Tamil society is rent by caste inequalities and is dived into “Oppressing and Oppressed Castes.”