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Lucknow: Caste hierarchies & contract labour exploitation among sanitation workers
Sanitation accused their supervisor of coercion, wage manipulation and caste-based abuse, alleging that workers are being pressured to surrender a recently approved ₹2,000 wage increase while being denied entitled leave. The allegations reflect the broader vulnerabilities faced by sanitation workers in Uttar Pradesh, which has recorded the highest number of sewer and septic tank deaths in India since 2017
Why Adivasis Didn’t Celebrate World Tribal Day This Year in Poll-Bound Madhya Pradesh
Tribal groups instead took out protests to express their anger with the Forests Act, growing atrocities in the BJP-ruled state and Manipur violence.
Dalit academic alleges assault, molestation; FIR names 2 faculty, 2 students: BHU
The complainant is a senior faculty member, reportedly alleged that the accused, including the two colleagues from her department, “regularly talked about stripping her and making her do rounds of the university”.
Anti-caste discrimination bill, with some changes, passed by California Assembly
The anti-caste discrimination bill, #SB403 was finally passed in the California Assembly
Noted rights defender and environmental rights activist, Prafulla Samantara abducted from hotel room in Rayagada, later found in Berhampur: Orissa
Sabrangindia spoke to well recognised environmentalist and Adivasi rights activist Prafulla Samantara, who said men masquerading as “police” forced their entry into the Hotel room (where he was due to attend a press conference) and whisked him away from Rayagada on a roundabout route to Behrampur, a distance of 255 kilometres, without FIR or warrant; Samantara an awardee of the international Green Nobel Prize, the Goldman International prize has now filed an FIR
One-year post order of the HC, family of Hathras victim yet to be given employment, awaiting relocation
Amicus Curiae in the case informs the Allahabad High Court that the Uttar Pradesh government is yet to comply by the order to provide employment to one of the family members and relocate family out of Hathras
25 persons arrested in southern Odisha in the last three weeks through police-corporate nexus
Three influential corporations, including Vedanta, Adani and HINDALCO are allegedly behind attacks on 25 Adivasi human rights activists in three southern districts of the state
Arrest of activist of Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sanghatan condemned
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Nitin, an activist of Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan was arrested on Tuesday, August 29, in Burhanpur, Madhya Pradesh in what has been alleged to be a false case. A protest with hundreds of Adivasis was organised in Burhanpur yesterday to protest
Social Justice remains elusive 33 years after Mandal Movement
Mandal Day celebrations are being held across the country....
Brutal rape and murder of tribal child in MP receives no headlines
A tribal teenager, aged 17, was murdered for allegedly refusing the sexual advances of a dominant caste man in the BJP-ruled state, Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district.
No country for Dalits: brutal incidents of violence against Dalits in the last week of August
Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra see four Dalits assaulted, 2 murdered in the last week itself.
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