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New York: Support Bill to end caste discrimination, campaign intensifies

Last week, May 6, the move to get caste equity bills pushed in New York state, received a push with a group of 50+ inter-faith coalitions, led by Dalit leaders and advocates met with several legislators

SC deems caste-based discrimination in higher education system to be a ‘very sensitive matter’

In the PIL filed by mothers of Rohith Vemula and Payal Tadvi, bench urges UGC take action, propose steps to facilitate students from the SC/ST backgrounds into the mainstream

Adivasis wants protection of identity & rights, not uniform laws: Prof Virginius Xaxa

Professor Virginius Xaxa -- who headed the High-Level Committee...

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#DontStealOurLand, widespread protests break out, district to state, to national: Bhumi Adhikar Andolan

Friday, June 30 saw widespread protests all over India from Haryana to Tamil Nadhu, Sonbhadra, east Uttar Pradesh to Jharkand.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad shot at: Saharanpur

Reports said that the convoy of Chandrashekhar Aazad was fired at by a few car-borne armed men and a bullet brushed past him, SSP Dr Vipin Tada said.

Theirs & ours, how Indian cities discriminate against Dalits & Muslims

Forced ghettoisation due to stigma is worsened by an iniquitous access and distribution of public services for Muslims and Dalits in Indian cities, an international study reveals

Protests erupt over ECI’s new delimitation draft in Assam which is embroiled in controversy

The delimitation exercise by the ECI, delayed from 2008, finds strong critics arguing vociferously against it stating that basic guidelines have been given the go by and older data, not the 2011 census used as its basis; moreover it is not just the Muslim minority but indigenous peoples who will be adversely impacted.

‘Black Day’ Protest against ecological plunder of forests, displacement of indigenous communities: Bhumi Adhikar Andolan

The Bhumi Adhikar Andolan, a decade long platform of mass organisations working on issue of indigenous peoples, farmers rights and ecologiocal protection has called for a nationwide protest against the exploitation of forest lands and the regressive proposed amendments to the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) on Friday, June 30

How a battle is being waged within India’s forests, for rights over land and resources

A real life battle is on in those lands over which forest dwellers and Adivasis ought to have control but where state and corporate interests intrude

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