Press Clippings - Dalit Women
- Challenging The Heteronormative Ideas Of Love | Feminism In India
- Dalit people’s representative threatened for boycott for calling out caste-based discrimination – Khabarhub Khabarhub
- ‘There is a tendency to blame the victim’: More needs to be done to solve India’s rape epidemic | The Independent
- Looking at mental health through Caste – The Life of Science
- ‘Made me sit on office floor’: TN Dalit panchayat president alleges caste-based discrimination- The New Indian Express
- Hathras: Four months on, Dalit girl’s family lives between court hearings and with ostracism
- Hathras rape: CBI charges four accused with gangrape, murder
- Majority of Indian domestic workers ‘work seven days a week with no annual leave’ | The Independent
- ‘There is a tendency to blame the victim’: More needs to be done to solve India’s rape epidemic | The Independent
- India’s Sanitation Workers Seek Immediate Help From The Government | Amnesty International India
- “I’m Going To Live A Leader’s Life And Die A Leader Too”: Manisha Mashaal
- 30 years of SC/ST PoA Act: Lacks and loopholes – TwoCircles.net
- Indian factory workers supplying major brands allege routine exploitation – BBC News
- UP Dalit Girl Dies of Burn Injuries, Family Blames Kin of Rapist
- Hathras Case: Angela Davis, Other Activists Express Solidarity, Demand Action
- Child marriage and child labour: Slavery is not dead in sugarcane (COUNTERVIEW.ORG)
- Why a 1995 Beijing Conference Was Significant for the Dalit Women’s Movement (The Wire)
- Despite 74 Years Of Independence, Dalit Lives Haven’t Improved Much: Amalapuram MP Chinta Anuradha (Feminism in India)
- A Note To ‘Equal Opportunity’ Employers: Inclusion Of Dalit – Queer People Needs More Than Mere ‘Encouragement’ (Feminism in India)
- Umar Khalid’s arrest: Shouldn’t allow Muslims’ identity to become a crime, say eminent personalities (Scroll.in)
- The Real Story – India’s Dalits: Fighting for justice (BBC Sounds)
- Pass The Mic: 10 Dalit Women Speakers Everyone Must Be Listening To Right Now (shethepeople)
- Dalit Trauma: Why It Is Important To Address Its Intergenerational Aspect (Feminism In India)
- Dalit Women Will Get Justice Only If Casteist Judicial System Is Uprooted (Feminism in India)
- Key media headlines on September 2020 rape cases in India and Nepal
- Police reluctant to invoke SC/ST Act in rape cases involving Dalits (The Federal)
- The power of human rights education – OHCHR
- The Search For Caste Solidarity: Dalit Women In India And Nepal (Feminism in India)
- The Indian village where child sexual exploitation is the norm (The Guardian)
- From where I stand: “Local and global political and economic systems create and maintain social inequality” (UN Women – article)
- India: The Dalit women of Tamil Nadu fight caste, the patriarchy, and climate change (Slate)
- ‘Internet opening space for new voices, but women face harassment online’ (Indian Express)
- Opinion | Twitter’s Caste Problem (The New York Times)
- Dalit women are brewing their own social revolution (Livemint)
- Dalit women’s rights activists to present accounts of caste violence at UNHRC (The Indian Express)
- Dalit girls and women are using the internet to elevate their critical perspectives and experiences (GenderIT.org)
- Pakistan’s first Dalit woman senator to champion girls’ education (Reuters)
- Pregnant Dalit woman beaten up for not disposing of cow carcass (The Hindu, 2016)
- India’s plan to tackle disasters neglects women, disabled and lower castes: aid workers (Reuters, 2016)
- Case study: Dalits with disabilities in India (Minority Stories, 2016)
- Collective efforts stressed to root out discriminations against downtrodden people (New Age)
- The women who refuse to do India’s dirtiest job (The Guardian)
- Dalit women deprived of constitutional rights (The Himalayan Times, 2016)
- The Death of Merit: Caste and Education | EYEZINE
- India drought hurts women, Dalits (Thomson-Reuters Foundation, 2016)
- Kerala Dalit student rape case: A pattern of chronic systemic apathy (dnaindia, 2016)
- Towards Dawn: Combating Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Brick Kilns (Different Truths, 2016)
- India: Violence Against Dalits on the Rise (The Diplomat, 2016)
- India’s female scavengers enslaved by caste, gender discrimination (Reuters, 2016)
- What Dalit Women Of Rajasthan Have Taught Me About Resilience (Sambhali Trust/ Huffington Post)
- Six-hour torture –Woman tied to tree, assaulted over refusal to withdraw case (Kractivism)
- Violence Against Dalit Women: How Caste Intersects With Gender-based Violence (Feminism in India)
- Twilight children – Disadvantaged caste working to meet Global market demands (Opinion – The Hindu)
- Dalit girl severely beaten up after her shadow falls on high caste man (The Indian Express)
- Dalit Women Recount Harrowing Experiences (The New Indian Express)
- From Black Lives Matter, activists for India’s discriminated Dalits learn tactics to press for dignity (Public Radio International)
- Connecting the movements for Dalit and Black lives (The Seattle Globalist)
- How these Dalit and tribal women from rural Madhya Pradesh are making themselves heard (DNA)
- The modern horrors of India’s ancient injustice: How a government has abandoned millions—and they are fighting back (Salon.com)
- Meet the Indian Women Trying to Take Down “Caste Apartheid” (YES magazine)
- #DalitWomenFight speak at Monkeywrench Books (video)
- Sexual Assault, Rape Top Crimes Against Scheduled Castes (Businessworld)
- Why India’s “Untouchable” Women Are The Targets Of Rape & How They Are Fighting Back (Oye Times)
- Testimonies of Women who faced discrimination- While Accessing WASH services – YouTube
- The silenced letter: 60-year-old Dalit rape victim fights to restore her SC name (The Indian Express)
- From dirty drains to smart cabs: 1,150 women from manual scavenger families to train as Uber and Meru drivers(Daily Mail Online)
- Baghpat and caste & gender discrimination in India (Amnesty International)
- Dalit women take out march in Sonepat (The Tribune)
- Dalit girl of Theni village escapes from “hell” in spinning mill (The Hindu)
- In rape cases, even filing an FIR is difficult: Dalit women (The Times of India)
- Dalit Woman Stripped Naked And Force Fed With Urine (TLI)
- A Rapist’s Nightmare – Dalit girls fights for justice (The New York Times)
- 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)
- Nepal – PM holds talks with Dalits, women activists (The Himalayan Times)
- CII to promote women Dalit entrepreneurs (The Hindu)
- “Caste Is Not Culture, Caste Is Criminal” say Dalit activists at HRC26 side event
- Yatra against caste violence (The Hindu)
- Dalit women travel through Odisha to map caste violence against dalit women (TwoCircles.net)
- Action alert: a 17.1 % increase in crimes against Dalits
- Dalit women stripped, beaten, paraded naked in UP village (India Today)
- Fighting the Dalit women’s fight with art and activism (The Guardian)
- Rape of Dalit women registers 500% increase since 2001, RTI reveals (The Indian Express)
- Shame! Dalit girl set on fire for pursuing education (Yahoo News India)
- Dalit and tribal women attacked by police in Odisha capital (OdishaSunTimes.com)
- #Dalitwomenfight! @ Incite Color of Violence 4 (Asha Kotal reporting via Storify)
- From Slavery to Self Reliance: A Story of Dalit Women in South India (Inter Press Service)
- ‘A Tragedy of Dignity’: Life as One of Bangladesh’s ‘Untouchables’ (VICE News)
- In India, a Broken System Leaves a ‘Broken’ People Powerless (Inter Press Service)
- NCW to study actual status of ‘devadasi’ system (Deccan Herald)
- Feminist Dalit Organization Nepal (FEDO) Newsletter – January and February 2015 (FEDO)
- Don’t mention the apartheid: caste discrimination and poverty in South Asia (Aidan McQuade, Director of Anti-Slavery International – Equal Times)
- Teenage Dalit girl raped, body found hanging from tree (ABP Live)
- Don’t mention the apartheid: caste discrimination and poverty in South Asia (Equal Times)
- India’s ‘Manual Scavengers’ Rise Up Against Caste Discrimination (IPS)
- Photostory on the Dalit women self-respect march in November 2014
- India, Enforce Protection For “Untouchables” (World Policy Institute)
- From Mumbai’s red-light district to UN award – Features – Al Jazeera English
- How India’s Dalit women are being empowered to fight endemic sexual violence (New Statesman)
- 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)
- Unstoppable: Two workers risking lives to fight bonded labour in Sindh
- New documentary on caste-based prostitution coming up (Video)
- One step forward, two back? Dalit women’s rights under economic globalisation (openDemocracy)
- Tamil Nadu’s exploited garment workers need help from British justice (The Guardian)
- Dalit Stops Cleaning Dry Toilets, Becomes Leader (Womens eNews)
- Minor Dalit girl gangraped in Andhra Pradesh (DNA)
- Dalit woman beaten up in Bihar on suspicion of witchcraft (DNA)
- Human Rights Watch 2014 Manual Scavenging Report – Collation of key global press clippings
- Still I rise (Elle India Magazine, article on US Dalit woman, 2014)
- Press Release — Dalit rights activist Manisha Devi receives Ambedkar award for courageous struggle
- ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ (FP)
- ‘India not willing to accept failure in providing safety measures to women’ (The Hindu)
- ‘Sexual violence against Dalits on rise in Haryana’ (Hindustan Times)
- The Ekta Club comes of age (Business Standard News)
- “For Nepal’s Dalits, Struggle Continues Amidst Slow Progress” (IPS Video reportage)
- What Is the Root Cause of India’s Epidemic of Violence Against Women? (LinkAsia)
- 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’
- 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
- God’s Own Dancers- Plight of Devadasis in Karnataka (PUCL)
- India’s ‘Temple Slaves’ Struggle to Break Free | Inter Press Service
- Dalit children to miss out on education (The Hindu)
- Annihilation by Caste (Economic and Political Weekly)
- 260 million ‘untouchables’ seek EU help | neurope.eu
- Fighting Violence against Women Interview with Manjula Pradeep, Dalit leader
- 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)
- Dalit women at NY gender forum (The Times of India)
- Four dalit girls raped in Haryana, state and privileged communities try to silence the victims (Asian Human Rights Commission)
- Dalit Women Face Multiplied Discrimination (IPS)
- Apartheid in ‘New’ India (Counterpunch)
- Five gangrape and burn the private parts of a Dalit woman (daily.bhaskar.com)
- Bilawal calls for impartial probe into Dalit girl’s murder (thenews.com.pk)
- India Rape Cases Colored by Caste (India Real Time – WSJ)
- I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made, and the Factory Sent Thugs After Me (Mother Jones on Sumangali workers))
- Dalit Stops Cleaning Dry Toilets, Becomes Leader (Press)
- Nobody wants to help us because we are dalits: acid attack survivor Chanchal Kumari – Hindustan Times, 2013
- New Law to Ban Manual Removal of Human Waste Disappoints (NYTimes, 2014)
- Indian Women Break the Silence Around Rape | Kayonaaz Kalyanwala
- A farewell to India: false miracles and true inspiration – The Globe and Mail
- Silence is not an option | Aradhna Wal
- Nobody wants to help us because we are dalits: acid attack survivor Chanchal Kumari – Hindustan Times
- ‘Stop Manual Scavenging ‘ | Hard News
- India’s Caste Culture is a Rape Culture (Daily Beast)
- Bangladesh: MRG visits a Dalit Sweeper colony in Dhaka · News · Minority Voices Newsroom
- MRG statement: Time for comprehensive action to end violence against Dalit women and girls, says MRG on International Women’s Day (MRG, 2013, Statement)
- Delhi Gang-Rape Protests: What About The Sex Crimes Against Untouchable Women?
- Fundamental changes needed in wake of India rape tragedy: Pillay (OHCHR, 2012, Statement)
- Pakistan news clippings 2012 (PDSN, 2012, News)
- 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)
- Forced Conversion? (Daily Times, 2010, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin August 2011 (FEDO, 2011, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin July 2011 (FEDO, 2011, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin June 2011 (FEDO, 2011, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin June 2011 (FEDO, 2011, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin March 2011 (FEDO, 2011, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin September 2010 (FEDO, 2010, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin December 2011 (FEDO, 2011, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin November 2011 (FEDO, 2011, News)
- FEDO’s E-Bulletin November 2010 (FEDO, 2010, News)
- The Rights of Dalit Women (Kathmandu Post, 2009, News)
- 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)
- Article of National Conference of Dalit Women – News Article From FEDO (FEDO, 2010, News)
- Dalit Oppression Result of Myriad Yrs of Caste System (Manjula Pradeep, 2011, News)
- Prostitutes of God (The Independent, 2010, News)
- Atrocities on Dalit Women Go Unpunished: Gujarat NGO (DNA, 2011, News)
- Atrocities Against Dalit Women Go Unpunished – New Study From Navsarjan Trust (IDSN, 2012, News)
- 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)
- Christian Minority Women Face Unknown World in Pakistan (WNN, 2009, News)
- Dalit Women in Nepal Demand “Dignified Life, Inclusion and Social Transformation” (IDSN, 2011, News)
- We are Not Thought of as Human (The Guardian, 2009, News)
- Dalit Women Participate in the UN Forum on Minority Issues (IDSN, News, 2011)
- Young Dalit Women Exploited in Indian Garment (SOMO/ICN, 2012, Press)
- Saga of ‘Maid in India’ (IDSN, 2012, News)
- Dalit Women’s Aspirations Brought Home Impact of ‘Double Discrimination’ (IDSN, 2011, News)
- We Are Not Thought of As Human (IDSN, 2009, News)
