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From December 2024 Onwards: CJP raises alarm over escalating anti-Dalit atrocities to NCSC
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) sends complaint to the NCSC, shedding light on widespread anti-Dalit atrocities across the nation and calling for justice for the victims of systemic discrimination.
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TN: Over 200 Dalits Enter Village Temple in Tiruvannamalai Amid Protests From Dominant Castes
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Heavy police protection was deployed to avoid any untoward incident.
Tribals Allege Officials Use Forest Rights Act to Harass, Demand Money; Picket DM’s Office
Protesters said that those who refuse to pay forest officials were termed 'outsiders' or 'encroachers' and their ready-to-harvest crops or even homes were mowed down with JCBs.
Ban caste discrimination: Ambedkar Intl Center to Seattle City Council
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The AIC has worked closely with council member Kshama Sawant, the Coalition of Seattle Indian-Americans (CSAI), Equality Labs, and the Ambedkar Association of North America (AANA) to help draft this proposed ordinance.
Dalit boy found hanging from tree in Uttar Pradesh village
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According to the boy's family, Gurjeet, the victim, was playing in the farm near the disputed part of the land when the accused men caught the boy, strangled him to death and tied him to a tree.
How caste hegemony has meant boycott for 17 families over inter-caste marriage: Gujarat
Seventeen families of the barber (Nai) caste in Gujarat’s Bhiloda taluka of Aravalli district have been facing a brute social boycott by privileged castes after a young man from the community married one from their caste
Student groups clash in Lucknow University on Rohith Vemula’s death anniversary
Rohith Vemula, a Dalit PhD scholar, hanged himself in his hostel room on January 17, 2016
MP: Promises CM Made in 2016 Still Unfulfilled, Alleges SC/ST Employee Association
The organisation has threatened a massive protest on February 26 in Bhopal.
REPLUG: Rohith Vemula, Your Sacrifice was Not in Vain
The HCU scholar showed us why it is crucial to fight the subtle atrocities and discriminations that exist in academic institutions in the name of excellence and autonomy.
A unique Yatra, Swaraj March by Adivasi communities that asserts yearning for key policy changes
In a recent 21 day march from Banswara to...
Gutti Koyas (Maru) Adivasis from Chhattisgarh face eviction in Telangana
Despite eviction being expressly disallowed under the Forest Rights Act of 2006, a gram sabha resolution passed a resolution to evict
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