Four dalit girls raped in Haryana, state and privileged communities try to silence the victims (Asian Human Rights Commission)
Urgent Appeal by the AHRC
Urgent Appeal by the AHRC
Authorities culpable over failure to provide Tharparkar region with adequate healthcare and infrastructure, claim NGOs. By Zofeen Ebrahim
Over 100 children have died in this last drought and the Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network have issued a press release calling for action to address the cause of these humanitarian catastrophes in Thar and find sustainable solutions to protect Dalits in future.
After meeting India's sumangali girls I will never look at cute, cheap clothes the same way again. "Workers themselves hardly ever report abuse, in part because many come from lower castes, including the dalit, or untouchables." By Dana Liebelson
”Discrimination faced by children on the basis of caste, ethnicity and disability continues to be one of the biggest challenges in our country,” says an Indian Child Rights Defender in the report published by Save the Children. Read caste extracts from the report here.
New Harvard report finds that, “minority castes and ethnic groups remain heavily exploited in India’s carpet sector. The fact that 99.9% of cases documented belonged to these communities is a blistering indictment of the country’s inability to protect and empower its most vulnerable and disenfranchised citizens.”
UNICEF: Dalit girls most excluded from primary education in India A report just released by UNICEF and UNESCO, on out of school children in India, highlights that Dalit girls have the highest primary school exclusion rate in India. The report also finds that half of the pre-school age Dalit children are not attending school.
India’s long-standing legacies of caste, gender and class antagonism replicate on campuses as well. As higher education moves forward, it does so on these social cleavages. By Sukhadeo Thorat
Caste systems are present in four out of five countries ranked the worst slavery offenders, in the 2013 Global Slavery Index. India alone accounts for half of the people on the planet regarded as ’modern slaves’.
Kara's pioneering analysis encompasses human trafficking, child labor, and global security, and he concludes with ten specific initiatives to eliminate the system of bonded labor from South Asia once and for all.
Input by the International Dalit Solidarity Network (www.idsn.org) to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racial discrimination – March 2013