Press Clippings - Dalit Children
Press Clippings - Dalit Children
- Child Labour, Caste Discrimination Closely Interlinked In India: UN Report (NDTV)
- Child marriage and child labour: Slavery is not dead in sugarcane (COUNTERVIEW.ORG)
- The Mica Children: Fighting for Survival in India’s Deadly Mines (Spiegel online)
- In Meerut, People – Including Children – Were Arrested for Being Dalit
- The Death of Merit: Caste and Education | EYEZINE
- Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns (Different Truths, 2016)
- India: Violence Against Dalits on the Rise (The Diplomat, 2016)
- Twilight children – Disadvantaged caste working to meet Global market demands (Opinion – The Hindu)
- Harsh Mander on how Dalit children continue to bear the brunt of untouchability (The Hindu)
- Dalit girl severely beaten up after her shadow falls on high caste man (The Indian Express)
- Teacher Jailed for Forcing Dalit Boy to Clean Faeces (The New Indian Express)
- Response sought in the Dian case along with trafficking of child labour
- Sir said I was a Dalit so I couldn’t be part of Puja: Odisha schoolgirl (The Indian Express)
- After Dalit Teen’s Rapists Tried To Blackmail Her, She’s Speaking Out To Create Change (Huffington Post)
- Vaibhav And Divya’s Murder: A Culmination Of Caste Discrimination And Violence Against Dalits (CounterCurrents.org)
- In The Dead Of The Night, Hatred Burns (Tehelka)
- 14-Year-Old Dalit Boy Charged With Theft of Pigeon Found Dead; Family Accuses Cops (NDTV)
- In a Rajasthan Village, Dalit Children Are Afraid To Go To School (NDTV)
- Child murdering caste society (Round Table India)
- Teacher beats up Dalit boy for touching non-Dalits’ meal, held (Times of India)
- Dalit student beaten for touching mid-day meal plates (DNA)
- Dalit girl of Theni village escapes from “hell” in spinning mill (The Hindu)
- A Rapist’s Nightmare – Dalit girls fights for justice (The New York Times)
- Watch: Teacher thrashing boy mercilessly in Karnataka (Zee News)
- Indian sisters told they will be repeatedly gang-raped as punishment for their brother’s crime launch appeal at Supreme Court (The Independent)
- Two sisters to be raped as punishment for brothers inter-caste relationship – demand justice (Amnesty International appeal and petition)
- 49% of Haryana’s dalit kids are malnourished: Report (The Times of India)
- New child labour law will hit girls, dalits and OBCs most (Hindustan Times)
- Mahadalit children driven out of school in Biharsharif (Times of India)
- Are we still in dark age? Children of cobblers treated like dirt (The Daily Star – Bangladesh)
- Dalits students forced to eat separately | The Asian Age
- Millions of Indian children are being denied school education due to discrimination (Scroll.in by Jayshree Bajoria – Human Rights Watch)
- Are we still in dark age? Children of cobblers treated like dirt in Magura school (Parittran)
- 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)
- India’s child labour ‘reforms’ could make it a dangerous place to invest – Guardian Op-ed by Aidan McQuade – Anti-Slavery
- Dalits Still Working in Bonded Labour in the Cotton Industry Despite Some Improvements, New Report Finds (IDSN, 2012, News)
- How the Right to Education is failing the very children it was meant to benefit (Scrool.in)
- Diluting India’s child labour law will trap families in cycle of poverty (Op-ed in The Guardian – by IDSN and DNN)
- Shame! Dalit girl set on fire for pursuing education (Yahoo News India)
- Combatting the Vicious Circle of Child Rights Violation (The New Indian Express)
- Video: Nepal’s Dalits face caste discrimination (Al Jazeera, 2015)
- 2014 Saw a Huge Increase in Dropouts (40% of them Dalit children) – Karnataka, India (The New Indian Express)
- Report: School authorities in Rajasthan use Dalit children to clean the toilets (Deccan Herald)
- Teenage Dalit girl raped, body found hanging from tree (ABP Live)
- Children bear the brunt of caste abuses in rural MP – Hindustan Times
- Gender and caste discrimination linked to school dropouts in India: Experts (ummid.com)
- New documentary on caste-based prostitution coming up (Video)
- Tamil Nadu’s exploited garment workers need help from British justice (The Guardian)
- Stopping the Small Hands of Slavery (Human Rights Watch)
- ′Poverty and caste′ fueling child labor in South Asia (DW)
- Land row claims life of 6-year-old Dalit girl in Madhya Pradesh (Hindustan Times)
- 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)
- Minor dalit girl gangraped in Badaun, dies after hospital refuses treatment (Firstpost)
- Minor Dalit girl gangraped in Andhra Pradesh (DNA)
- Dalit school students beaten up, expelled for drinking from common water pot (The Times of India)
- Dalit children barred from entering govt school and beat up at the gate in UP (India Today)
- “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)
- Report says caste, gender discrimination rampant in schools (Indian Express)
- Dalit children to miss out on education (The Hindu)
- Most Dalit students dropout before School Leaving exams (Republica)
- Women tied to bonded labour in Tamil Nadu: Survey (The Times of India)
- 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)
- Pakistan drought: government accused over child deaths in Sindh province (The Guardian)
- 15-year-old boy forced to strip by teacher, dies after suicide attempt (Hindustan Times)
- I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made, and the Factory Sent Thugs After Me (Mother Jones on Sumangali workers))
- Caste Discrimination in Higher Education: Unlearning undemocratic values (The Hindu)
- A farewell to India: false miracles and true inspiration – The Globe and Mail
- Bonded (Child) Labour in the South Indian Garment Industry – An Update of Debate and Action on the ‘Sumangali Scheme’ (SOMO/ICN, News, 2012)
- Exploited Dalit Girls Produce Garments in India for European and US Markets – Companies Have Taken Steps, But Exploitation Remains Widespread (SOMO/India Comittee of the Netherlands, 2011, Press)
- Selected 2011 News on Caste Discrimination in India (IDSN, 2011, News)
- Dalit Girl Thrown Into Fire by Upper Caste Men – Her Pregnant Mother Severely Thrashed While Trying to Rescue Her Daughter From Flames! (Madhu Chandra, 2011, News)
- Who Will Listen to Our Plight and Pain? (Navsarjan, 2009, Press)
- Dalit Girls Working Under Slave Like Conditions in India’s Garment Industry (IDSN, 2011, News)
- Motion Passed in Dutch Parliament on Full Supply Chain Transparency in India’s Garment Industry, Following Report Highlighting Dalits in Bonded Labour (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Manu Over Ambedkar – Gujarat’s Balmiki Kids Face Daily Humiliations in School and Village (Outlook India, 2009, News)
- Young Dalit Women Exploited in Indian Garment (SOMO/ICN, 2012, Press)
- Saga of ‘Maid in India’ (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Yemen: Girls, Poor and Black Children most Discriminated Against – Study (IDSN, 2009, News)