Selected press clippings on caste discrimination in 2014
- Why segregated housing is thriving in India (BBC News)
- Indian couple defy taboo in inter-caste love story | Life | Malay Mail Online
- “Caste Is Not Culture, Caste Is Criminal” say Dalit activists at HRC26 side event
- Dalits students forced to eat separately | The Asian Age
- Video: Nepal’s Dalits face caste discrimination (Al Jazeera, 2015)
- Don’t mention the apartheid: caste discrimination and poverty in South Asia (Equal Times)
- Modern Slavery in Bangladesh (NYTimes, 2014)
- Statment on Yemen at Minority Forum 2014 – All Youth Network
- Photostory on the Dalit women self-respect march in November 2014
- Bangladesh Dalit protest – demand dignity (DalitBangladesh)
- Children bear the brunt of caste abuses in rural MP – Hindustan Times
- Why Caste Won’t Disappear From India | Shashi Tharoor
- India, Enforce Protection For “Untouchables” (World Policy Institute)
- Local EU Statement on Political Developments in Nepal (EU Nepal)
- From Mumbai’s red-light district to UN award – Features – Al Jazeera English
- India’s silent apartheid: where is the anger
- Battle against caste system goes global – The Times of India
- Caste Rules The Roost Across South Asia (Tehelka.com)
- The land of exclusion (Frontline – Jayati Ghosh)
- How India’s Dalit women are being empowered to fight endemic sexual violence (New Statesman)
- Where dust brings death (The Hindu)
- India denies ‘caste’ as factor of gender inequality – The Hindu: Mobile Edition
- Govt team insisted not to use the word ‘caste’, say activists (The Indian Express)
- Activists block roads, highway to protest against dalit murders – The Times of India
- Maharashtra Dalit Murders: Jawkheda – Anatomy of a dalit triple murder (TwoCircles)
- Just 5% of Indian marriages are inter-caste: survey (The Hindu)
- View from abroad : Horrors of the caste system (Dawn)
- Unstoppable: Two workers risking lives to fight bonded labour in Sindh
- Gender and caste discrimination linked to school dropouts in India: Experts (ummid.com)
- New documentary on caste-based prostitution coming up (Video)
- One step forward, two back? Dalit women’s rights under economic globalisation (openDemocracy)
- Newsletter from Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network (November 2014)
- Tamil Nadu’s exploited garment workers need help from British justice (The Guardian)
- Kailash Satyarthi’s Nobel Peace Prize Caps Decades of Fighting Child Slavery in India (NYTimes)
- Stopping the Small Hands of Slavery (Human Rights Watch)
- ′Poverty and caste′ fueling child labor in South Asia (DW)
- Modi aims to shake up sanitation with Clean India drive (Reuters)
- Need to clean our biases first, then our streets (Hindustan Times)
- Help End Untouchability – Video Volunteers Campaign (Video Volunteers)
- Lynching of boy underlines how the curse of caste still blights India (The Guardian)
- Land row claims life of 6-year-old Dalit girl in Madhya Pradesh (Hindustan Times)
- Govt opposed to Dalit status for converts (The Times of India)
- Triple murder of Dalit family rocks Maharashtra (The Hindu)
- Dalit Stops Cleaning Dry Toilets, Becomes Leader (Womens eNews)
- “Despite my being the chief minister, some powerful people treat me as untouchable” says Bihar CM (India Today)
- India’s ‘untouchables’ offered opportunity of a better life (The Guardian)
- Indian priest thrashes ‘untouchable’ boy, 8, who asked for sweets (The Telegraph)
- Temple priest smashes 8-year-old Dalit boy’s head for prasadam (Deccan Chronicle)
- Dark days of violence on Dalits return to haunt Bihar (The Indian Express)
- Dalit boy attacked for wearing slippers in village (Times of India)
- Minors assault Dalit youth over nameplate in Gujarat (The Hindu)
- Minor Dalit girl gangraped in Andhra Pradesh (DNA)
- Dalit woman beaten up in Bihar on suspicion of witchcraft (DNA)
- Punjab Police Murders Two Dalit Brothers In Encounter Killing (Link Newspaper)
- Dalit boy buys an auto rickshaw but dominant castes deny him the right to work as driver – says he must be a sweeper (The Hindu)
- Bihar: Dalits dragged by horses, hit with pistol butt (Hindustan Times)
- Dalit school students beaten up, expelled for drinking from common water pot (The Times of India)
- Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs (India Forbes)
- ‘Upper’ caste men burn down dalit homes in Bihar village (Video Volunteers)
- Wateraid statement on manual scavenging 2014
- Forced to Clean Human Waste in India (Video – Human Rights Watch)
- ‘If you don’t send your women to clean our toilets, we will beat them up’ (The Hindu)
- Low-caste Indians forced into ‘dirty’ jobs (ABC News)
- India lower caste still removing human waste (Al Jazeera)
- ‘Untouchables’ Still Pressed to Work Disposing Human Waste (Wall Street Journal)
- Low-caste Indians still forced to clean human waste: rights group (AFP)
- HRW: India′s ′untouchables′ still pressed to clean human excrement (Deutsche Welle)
- India’s ‘Untouchables’ Are Still Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand (TIME)
- Group decries India’s reliance on waste cleaners (AP)
- India’s low castes still forced to clean human excreta, says HRW (Reuters)
- In pictures: India’s ‘untouchable’ scavengers (BBC)
- Human Rights Watch 2014 Manual Scavenging Report – Collation of key global press clippings
- Nepal: UN Human Rights Council should exert pressure to abolish Haliya practice, a form of slavery (AHRC)
- ix year remembrance day for the victims of the Kandhamal communal violence, observed across India
- Don’t mention the apartheid: Caste-discrimination and poverty in South Asia (Anti-Slavery International)
- Contours of caste disadvantage (The Hindu)
- Still I rise (Elle India Magazine, article on US Dalit woman, 2014)
- Dalits put forth 27 demands to CA in Nepal (National)
- Press Release — Dalit rights activist Manisha Devi receives Ambedkar award for courageous struggle
- Shocking Stories of Caste Discrimination at Public Hearing (The New Indian Express)
- Caste discrimination in India’s elite institutions: Students (DNA)
- Dalit children barred from entering govt school and beat up at the gate in UP (India Today)
- Caste struggle and politics in Pakistan (The Nation)
- Rights groups seek amendments to SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act (The Hindu)
- “Non-Dalit youths must know what caste discrimination is” (The Hindu)
- ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ (FP)
- Dalits, adivasis disappointed with delay in amendment to atrocities Act (Times of India)
- Dalits Call for the Quick Enactment of the Anti Discrimination Law (Bangladesh Dalit – Parittran)
- Dalit Network calls for recovery of workers’ bodies from caved-in well in Pakistan (PDSN Press Release)
- ‘India not willing to accept failure in providing safety measures to women’ (The Hindu)
- Crimes against dalits rise 245% in last decade (The Times of India)
- ‘Sexual violence against Dalits on rise in Haryana’ (Hindustan Times)
- The spread of caste discrimination? (BBC News – Louise Stewart blog)
- Punished by axe: Bonded labour in India’s brick kilns (BBC News)
- The Ekta Club comes of age (Business Standard News)
- Altering Punjab’s caste equations (Business Standard Blog)
- Modi needs to address caste issue (Arab News)
- India’s sewer cleaners keep working despite ban on job (LA Times)
- Manual scavenging continues in India: Minister (The Times of India)
- Law to Prohibit Manual Scavenging Been Implemented, High Court Asks Civic Agencies
- Henri Tiphagne: Indian Human Rights Defender (ISHR)
- Separate water taps for different castes (Nepal News Portal)
- “For Nepal’s Dalits, Struggle Continues Amidst Slow Progress” (IPS Video reportage)
- India’s free school lunches can fight — or reinforce — caste discrimination in India (Public Radio International)
- Officials Ignorant of SC/ST Sub-Plan Act: Ravella (The New Indian Express)
- UN Rights Chief Calls Time on Caste-Based Sex Attacks (AFP)
- BBC Asia Newshour on rape in India with interview with Manjula Pradeep (BBC)
- Press Clippings – HRC26 side-event on ‘Caste-based violence against women’
- Dalai Lama speaks out against caste based discrimination in Zanskar (phayul.com)
- Sexual violence against Dalit women: Minister Timmermans discusses Dalit issue with Indian government – commitment in UN still largely absent (DNN News)
- Report: Sexual Assault On Four Girls In Haryana In The Context Of Dalit Rights To Common Land
- Report says caste, gender discrimination rampant in schools (Indian Express)
- God’s Own Dancers- Plight of Devadasis in Karnataka (PUCL)
- India’s ‘Temple Slaves’ Struggle to Break Free | Inter Press Service
- Plea to pass SC/ST Act Amendment Ordinance (The Hindu)
- Dalit children to miss out on education (The Hindu)
- Annihilation by Caste (Economic and Political Weekly)
- Move for SC/ST cop at every police station – in Patna district (The Times of India)
- Govt to fix accountability for dalit funds (The Times of India)
- War against caste oppression calls for fighting on multiple fronts (Economic Times)
- India: A law against torture is of no use (AHRC statement)
- ‘Upper caste villagers grab dalits’ farmland by proxy’ (The Times of India)
- The International Service on Human Rights (ISHR) profile on IDSN in relation to ECOSOC
- Interview with Human Rights Defenders Asha Kowta and Henri Tiphagne (in Dutch – Mo Magazine)
- 260 million ‘untouchables’ seek EU help | neurope.eu
- Dalit community in acute water, sanitation crisis (Dhaka Tribune)
- Fighting Violence against Women Interview with Manjula Pradeep, Dalit leader
- 200 major atrocities against Dalits in UP- India from 2012 to May 2014
- Dalit activist’s murder: Police reject ‘dying declaration’, villagers say will fight ‘till the end’ (The Indian Express)
- Most Dalit students dropout before School Leaving exams (Republica)
- Raped, 4 Haryana teens on stir (The Times of India)
- Selected press clippings on the 2014 rape and hanging of two low caste girls in Uttar Pradesh
- Women tied to bonded labour in Tamil Nadu: Survey (The Times of India)
- Dalits vote under police protection (The Hindu)
- Dalit women at NY gender forum (The Times of India)
- A Human Rights based solution is the way forward to end caste discrimination (Santosh Dass Blog)
- YouTube eye on a brutal caste system (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Laws fail to address caste-based discrimination (Republica)
- INDIA: National shame (Asian Human Rights Commission)
- India: Democracy in a Gutter, Literally. (Asian Human Rights Commission)
- The echoing silence of caste (The Hindu)
- The primary trauma (The Indian Express)
- Four dalit girls raped in Haryana, state and privileged communities try to silence the victims (Asian Human Rights Commission)
- On Why Caste Based Reservation Is Necessary (Countercurrents)
- Housing apartheid in Indian city (Al Jazeera)
- UN hears of religious discrimination against ‘untouchables’ in India (Christian Today)
- Lecture by Dr. Jesse L. Jackson on Caste (Round Table India)
- Dalit Women Face Multiplied Discrimination (IPS)
- he Doctor and the Saint – Ambedkar, Gandhi and the battle against caste (The Caravan)
- Apartheid in ‘New’ India (Counterpunch)
- Bigotry beyond borders (Opinion – Ekatipur.com)
- Pakistan drought: government accused over child deaths in Sindh province (The Guardian)
- Equality and Human Rights Commission publishes Caste in Britain reports
- Dalit organizations launch 180 day long march for land rights (TwoCircles.net)
- Five gangrape and burn the private parts of a Dalit woman (daily.bhaskar.com)
- Water scarcity heightens caste tensions in India
- Bilawal calls for impartial probe into Dalit girl’s murder (thenews.com.pk)
- 15-year-old boy forced to strip by teacher, dies after suicide attempt (Hindustan Times)
- Dalits celebrating New Year attacked (The Hindu)
- I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made, and the Factory Sent Thugs After Me (Mother Jones on Sumangali workers))
- The diaspora’s dark side (The Hindu)
- Savio Mahimaidass: calling to end caste-based discrimination worldwide (OHCHR web news)
- Akhdam: A look into lives of Yemen’s untouchables (Khaleej Times)
- New Law to Ban Manual Removal of Human Waste Disappoints (NYTimes)
- Pakistan: Dalit appointed a key political adviser on minorities (GulfNews.com)
- Lower-caste people get less aid when disaster strikes – report (Reuters)
- Dalit Stops Cleaning Dry Toilets, Becomes Leader (Press)
- Desperate, disgusted but proud: India’s human waste removers (CNN, 2014)
- Dhaka Dalits push for anti-discrimination law (Al Jazeera)
- New Law to Ban Manual Removal of Human Waste Disappoints (NYTimes, 2014)
- Caste Discrimination in Higher Education: Unlearning undemocratic values (The Hindu)
- India’s Caste Culture is a Rape Culture (Daily Beast)
