Press clippings - India
- Child Labour, Caste Discrimination Closely Interlinked In India: UN Report (NDTV)
- It is time to talk about caste in Pakistan and Pakistani diaspora | Pakistan News | Al Jazeera
- Challenging The Heteronormative Ideas Of Love | Feminism In India
- ‘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
- Life as an “Untouchable” in India – YouTube
- ‘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
- India’s lower-caste Dalit women raped ‘to keep them in their place’: report | South China Morning Post
- 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)
- NCRB data shows Muslims, Dalits, Tribal population in prisons disproportionate to their numbers outside (FirstPost)
- ‘We will bring change’: the Indian band shaking a cruel caste system (The Guardian)
- A Note To ‘Equal Opportunity’ Employers: Inclusion Of Dalit – Queer People Needs More Than Mere ‘Encouragement’ (Feminism in India)
- 81 cases of violence against Dalits reported during lockdown: CPI(M) (The Hindu)
- ‘Lower caste’ Catholics in India seek representation in Church’s power structure (Licas.news)
- Umar Khalid’s arrest: Shouldn’t allow Muslims’ identity to become a crime, say eminent personalities (Scroll.in)
- EU Parliament’s human rights panel warns India over increasing attack on religious minorities (Scroll.in)
- FRCA law: 15 international organisations condemn Centre’s move to freeze NGO’s account (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
- Indian Catholics Threaten Caste Schism (Press article)
- Delhi’s shame: The complete failure of rehabilitation of the manual scavengers (Dalit Camera)
- Indian Church denies discrimination against Dalit Christians (UCA News)
- 12 Reasons Why Dalits Have Been Killed In India (ScoopWhoop)
- Police reluctant to invoke SC/ST Act in rape cases involving Dalits (The Federal)
- The Evidence Is Clear, Caste Hurts Corporations In India And Abroad (HuffPost India)
- India’s oppressed groups had high hopes from Internet. But upper castes got in there too (The Print.in)
- To truly overcome anti-black racism, we must also challenge South Asia’s caste system (The Independent)
- Caste Diversity, Social Binding Has Helped Tamil Nadu Doctors Cope with COVID Challenge (The Wire)
- The underlying threat of social distancing (The Record – Nepal)
- U.S. Black Lives Matter protests spur calls for India to wake up to Dalit discrimination (Reuters)
- New report by NDMJ-SASY reveals surge in atrocities against Dalits, Adivasis amid COVID-19 lockdown
- #DalitLivesMatter: Why Are Atrocities Against Dalits On The Rise? (Feminism in India)
- Can India Ignore its Caste Realities While Relaxing Labour Laws? (News 18)
- 5 Dalit Artists Challenging Casteism Through Music, Films And Literature (Feminism in India)
- No work, new debt: Covid-19 creates perfect storm for slavery in India (Today)
- Indian Dalits find no refuge from caste in Christianity (BBC News)
- COVID-19 Lockdown: Domestic Workers And A Class-Caste Divide (Feminism India)
- COVID-19 poses new risks to India’s enslaved waste pickers (Thomson Reuters)
- India cannot fight coronavirus without taking into account its class and caste divisions (Scroll.in)
- Homeless in city of birth: 3 out of 5 Indians without roof not migrants (Telegraph India)
- The Search For Caste Solidarity: Dalit Women In India And Nepal (Feminism in India)
- In Conversation With Bezwada Wilson: The Fight Against Manual Scavenging (Feminism in India)
- INDIA Supreme Court agrees to hear petition on reservations for Christian Dalits
- The Indian village where child sexual exploitation is the norm (The Guardian)
- The silent death of workers in India (Equal Times)
- India: The Dalit women of Tamil Nadu fight caste, the patriarchy, and climate change (Slate)
- Study reveals caste-based segregation in Bengaluru (The Hindu)
- Study finds discrimination in flood relief work (Times of India)
- ‘Internet opening space for new voices, but women face harassment online’ (Indian Express)
- Dalit problems will not be solved by avoiding the rehabilitation issue (Justice News)
- EU strengthens relations with India without engaging against caste-based discrimination (Brussels Times)
- Study by NGO reveals discrimination against Dalits at cyclone relief camps (The Hindu, 2018)
- Opinion | Twitter’s Caste Problem (The New York Times)
- ‘Tell Everyone We Scalped You!’ How Caste Still Rules in India (New York Times)
- ‘Call Me Priya’: film sparks debate about India’s textile industry
- India not free 71 years on, rising inequality, unemployment to blame (National Herald)
- Dalit women are brewing their own social revolution (Livemint)
- ‘Society Needs Us, But Only For Cleaning Others’ Dirt’ (The Wire)
- India Should Recognise That Manual Scavenging Is Akin to Slavery (TheWire)
- Sanitation workers: Deaths of five men cleaning sewer are a blot on India’s capital
- Bringing justice close: an experiment in accessing justice with technology (Open Global Rights)
- Why we need the term Dalit (Indian Express)
- Won’t back off: New turn to India’s caste conflicts (Hindustan Times)
- Dalit women’s rights activists to present accounts of caste violence at UNHRC (The Indian Express)
- In Meerut, People – Including Children – Were Arrested for Being Dalit
- Discrimination against Dalits, Muslims in India deeply disturbing, says UN human rights chief
- Dalit girls and women are using the internet to elevate their critical perspectives and experiences (GenderIT.org)
- Lawyers and activist fighting against caste discrimination arrested (Scroll.in)
- The 7 National Surveys That Counted Manual Scavengers Thus Far And Their Varied Numbers (The Wire)
- Dalit Boys as Young as 12 Languish in Yogi’s Jails on ‘Attempt to Murder’ Charges (The Wire)
- Dalit beaten to death in Rajkot, India, 5 arrested after the video goes viral (Times of India)
- Newly married Dalit Christian man beaten to death in ‘honour killing’ that shocks southern India (The Independent)
- Atrocities Act protests: Bias against Dalits runs deep, as proved by actions of police, media
- Unspent money for Dalits, Adivasis (Millennium Post, 2016)
- In India, a Revolution of the Untouchables (Pacific Standard, 2016)
- 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)
- The women who refuse to do India’s dirtiest job (The Guardian)
- Video Of Delhi Police Thrashing Students [protesting death of Dalit student] Goes Viral; Is The Current Regime Anti-Student? (TheCitizen.in)
- Dalit Rights Activists Slam Budget, Say Allocation for SC/STs in Violation of Jadhav Guidelines
- Atrocities Against Dalits Continue Unabated Due To Poor Enforcement Of Law: Supreme Court (Live Law)
- Budget criticised by Dalit, SC/ST rights activists- The New Indian Express
- Why hasn’t caste discrimination against Dalits been outlawed in Britain? (Inews, 2016)
- India: More than half of undertrials are Dalits, Muslims and tribals (Al Jazeera English, 2016)
- In India, Food Business Challenges Caste-based Discrimination (VOA News, 2016)
- In Mevani’s Arrest Lies Gujarat Govt’s Fears of a Land Uprising (The Quint, 2016)
- My head hangs in shame over atrocities on Dalits: Modi (Times of India, 2016)
- India’s Dalits refuse to bury cow carcasses in escalating protests against caste discrimination (South China Morning Post, 2016)
- Khairlanji was 10 years ago. And the caste war in Maharashtra continues (Catch News 2016)
- Gujarat govt “war” on Dalit activists? Minister seeks inquiry against Dalit NGO, cops file FIR to placate Mevani (Counterview 2016)
- Answer to Maratha protests: Dalits hold a rally in Latur (Hindustan Times 2016)
- UK caste groups call on British PM for action (PTI feed, News 2016)
- Satish Deshpande on discrimination against Dalits, STs: pushback against civil liberties (The Hindu 2016)
- Una Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani interview: Material issues are at the heart of Dalit politics (Scroll 2016)
- With Marathas targeting the caste crime law, Maharashtra Dalits fear the return of the ‘old days’ (Scroll, 2016)
- Pay gap between FCs, SCs more blatant in private sector: study (The Hindu 2016)
- Govt blind to 4,578 atrocity cases piled up in courts (Times of India 2016)
- Child trafficking rampant in tea gardens, says study (The Hindu 2016)
- Gujarat Dalits put BJP govt on notice, protest march to reach Una on Independence Day (The Indian Express 2016)
- Violence against Dalits: There is a discernible pattern to this madness (The Indian Express 2016)
- Why Crime is Rising Against Dalits and Tribals (The Quint, 2016)
- Discrimination: Soldier funeral reveals India outsize outcaste problem (IANS, 2016)
- ‘I don’t want to bow down to higher castes anymore’ (Frontline, 2016)
- The new Dalit movement: Assertive, inclusive and beyond party politics | india-news | Hindustan Times
- Suicide stats show wide gap between SCs and others in Gujarat, Tripura (The Indian Express)
- How Well Has Narendra Modi’s Government Protected India’s Scheduled Castes? (The Diplomat)
- Caste is anti-national as it divides India, says Amartya Sen (Hindustan Times)
- Why are many Indian Muslims seen as untouchable? (BBC News)
- India’s plan to tackle disasters neglects women, disabled, Dalits (Thomson-Reuters)
- SOS: Get us out of the gutter (Tribune India)
- Reality Of Clean India? Manual Scavenging Still An Ugly Truth For 1000s (Youth-Kiawaaz)
- Twenty-Three Years Since Anti-Manual Scavenging Act Not Much Has Changed on Ground | The Wire
- Bhim Yatra: a bus full of hope for the manual scavenger (Catch News)
- Stories we don’t hear (Livemint)
- India’s forgotten people (Frontline)
- The women who refuse to do India’s dirtiest job | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian
- How to be free of caste in India (The Hindu)
- COUNTERVIEW: Noam Chomsky joins top US, British, other world scholars to condemn “state violence” in Hyderabad
- Urgent Notes from a University in Crisis | The Wire
- Hindu nationalism and caste exclusion in Indian universities | openDemocracy
- Two colours: How ‘common enemy’ in university campuses united Jai Bheem, Lal Salaam | The Indian Express
- Rohith Vemula – an unfinished portrait | Hindustan Times
- Rohith’s suicide issue raised during UN rights meet
- A Dalit’s Suicide Sparks Protests in India | The Diplomat
- The Death of Merit: Caste and Education | EYEZINE
- COUNTERVIEW: Govt of India “blocks” Dalit solidarity network’s move to seek recognition at UN (2016)
- Caste Won’t Be Erased from California Textbooks (The Wire, 2016)
- India drought hurts women, Dalits (Thomson-Reuters Foundation, 2016)
- Kerala Dalit student rape case: A pattern of chronic systemic apathy (dnaindia, 2016)
- Brutal rape, murder of a woman in Kerala sparks protests (Reuters, 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)
- Dalits fight for a fair share of the budget in India (IDSN)
- Blog on Dalit women, violence and manual scavenging – Lynne Featherstone – UK MP
- Why are India’s Dalit students taking their lives? (BBC News)
- A Tragic Suicide at a University Puts the Spotlight on Discrimination Against Dalits in India (Global Voices)
- Dalit Family Denied Road Access To Bury Family Members in Tamil Nadu (Huffington Post)
- In Tamil Nadu’s Vazhavur, another story of Dalit death and prejudice (The Indian Express)
- What Dalit Women Of Rajasthan Have Taught Me About Resilience (Sambhali Trust/ Huffington Post)
- 354 dalit, adivasi groups suggest overhaul of schemes to finance ministry (Times of India)
- Why segregated housing is thriving in India (BBC News)
- Study shows NCR homeowners turn away Dalits and Muslims (The Indian Express)
- Breaking the caste barrier (Livemint)
- A Dalit village in Cuddalore was left to fend for itself through 36 days of flooding (Scroll.in)
- 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)
- Two Manual Scavengers Die of Suffocation (The New Indian Express)
- Punjab Dalit ‘atrocities’ echo in RS, Oppn flays Badal govt (The Tribune)
- Abohar farmhouse murder: They had chopped off arms from below elbows, feet with shoes on, says Dalit workers mother (The Indian Express)
- Caste Bias in Giving Away Aid to Flood-hit, Says TN Dalit Forum (The New Indian Express)
- Making 10,000 Dalit Adivasi leaders for dignity and development in Odisha (TwoCircles.net)
- Scant aid for low-caste villagers hit by Tamil Nadu floods – charities (Reuters)
- This ends with me: A ‘safai karamchari’s’ dreams for a different life (The Indian Express)
- Flooded Chennai’s dirty secret: Dalits clean rotting mess (Hindustan Times)
- 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)
- Church rushes to help flood-hit Chennai ucanews.com
- Agony of rain-hit villagersin Tamil Nadu (The Hindu)
- Dalit Muslims, Dalit Christians & quota: What is it all about? (Times of India)
- Dalits suffered more than others in flood-hit Cuddalore: Report (Hindustan Times)
- Girl was beaten to death for falling in love with a Dalit youth (The Hindu)
- Manual scavenging is illegal, so why do states continue to support the practice? (Scroll.in)
- Study shows Delhi and NCR homeowners deny renting house to Dalits and Muslims (Deccan Chronicle)
- Dalit girl severely beaten up after her shadow falls on high caste man (The Indian Express)
- Caste assertion, clashes in Tamil Nadu forcing Dravidian parties to recalibrate their politics (Firstpost)
- Dalit Women Recount Harrowing Experiences (The New Indian Express)
- Teacher Jailed for Forcing Dalit Boy to Clean Faeces (The New Indian Express)
- Love in the time of intolerance – In India 2015, inter-caste married couple seeks police protection (Telegraph India)
- Response sought in the Dian case along with trafficking of child labour
- Dalit woman killed over land dispute in Haryana (The Hindu)
- Dalit Woman Beaten Up for Refusing to be Maid – The New Indian Express
- Caste relations go south (Thelma)
- A New Wave Of Caste Atrocities (Tehelka)
- Dalit Muslims of India (Video – Al Jazeera)
- “Upper-Caste” Men Can Burn Children Alive In Narendra Modi’s India (Carbonated.TV)
- Sir said I was a Dalit so I couldn’t be part of Puja: Odisha schoolgirl (The Indian Express)
- Out Damn Caste (Opinion – Outlook)
- How many ‘anti-Dalit’ crimes will it take before national conscience is evoked? (DNA)
- Violence against Dalits on the rise (Livemint)
- Caste – India’s curse (New Internationalist)
- Connecting the movements for Dalit and Black lives (The Seattle Globalist)
- 90-Year-Old Dalit Man Stopped From Entering Uttar Pradesh Temple, Burnt Alive (Huffington Post)
- Photos: Mumbai’s 30,000 unsung Dalit heroes are languishing in filth and squalor