Dalit Bahujan Adivasi

A people on the brink: The fight to protect the Shompen of Great Nicobar

India’s tribal communities have long lived at the margins of society, shaped by histories of displacement, fragile livelihoods and limited access to essential services. Among them, the Particularly Vulnerable...

HRDA demands justice for Baldev Murmu’s illegal detention

Police kept the Adivasi activist from Jharkhand in jail for two-days in clear violation of CrPC laws and Article 22

UP: ST boy’s family cry murder following custodial torture!

Three police personnel were suspended, although police claimed that the family's allegations were false

Dhinkia has become a war-zone: Say activists

Human rights activists arrested for over a week have complained of custodial torture by local police

Uttar Pradesh: Dalit boy shot for not greeting ‘seniors’ in Agra

Two Class 12 boys verbally abused and then thrashed the Class 10 student, then one of them fired at him with a country-made pistol; police have made one arrest so far

Did KEM Dean, hostel wardens enable caste-based ragging and atrocities? 

After reports emerged about how a Scheduled Caste student was abused due to his caste, and no action was taken against perpetrators for two years, hundreds of people held a silent protest outside KEM Hospital

KEM Hospital accused of atrocities against SC students

Activists planning protest; condemn hospital and Mumbai Police for poor track record against caste-based crimes

Odisha: 3 activists arrested for speaking truth to power in fact-finding report

Civil society and human rights groups detailed the continued oppression in Jagatsinghpur’s Dhinkia region during 2021

CJP’s new map tracks Caste-based Hate Crimes across India in 2021

These are not figures from a century ago, but from the past year; Hate crimes against Dalits and Adivasis continue even today!

Dalit man forced to enter and clean sewer in Gujarat

Complaint filed after independent MLA Jignesh Mevani intervenes; the inhuman practice of forcing Dalits into manual scavenging continues even today

Dalits and Adivasis suffered violence and discrimination even in 2021

Though most of these attacks emerge from societal prejudices and historic alienation, a dispensation that has encouraged a state of impunity to targeted crimes of the most marginalised has made matters more acute

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