Dalits
- Child labour, Dalits, Employment, Global development, Global health, India, Law, Malnutrition, Migration and development, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns
Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access heal…
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‘Why are you asleep?’ Rahul Gandhi pleads with India’s low castes to vote out Modi
On his 4,000-mile march across the country, congressman tells voters to wake up to the vast gulf between them …
- Culture, Dalits, Documentary films, Film, Global development, Hinduism, Human rights, India, Martin Luther King, Religion, South and Central Asia, US news, World news
‘He’d be horrified at discrimination today’: new film revives message of India’s Dalit champion
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is revered as a founder of modern India and for his work fighting the caste system. A n…
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‘I will fight until I die’: Nepal’s celebrated Dalit activist on her lifelong battle for equality
Being denied water as a child set Sarswati Nepali on a path to end caste-based discrimination. She has since b…
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Who’s laughing now? The Dalit comedians punching up against India’s caste system
Once the butt of others’ standup routines, comics from the lowest social strata are turning the tables, with h…
- Dalits, India, Journalist safety, Media, Press freedom, Society, South and Central Asia, Violence against women and girls, World news
Indian journalist freed on bail after being jailed for two years without trial
Muslim reporter Siddique Kappan had been charged under draconian anti-terrorism lawsIndian journalist Siddique…
- Dalits, India, Media, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, Violence against women and girls, World news
Jailed Indian journalist gets bail almost two years after arrest
Muslim journalist Siddique Kappan arrested while covering gang-rape and killing of Dalit woman in Uttar Prades…
- Abortion, Dalits, Feminism, Global development, Health, India, Inequality and development, Reproductive rights, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's health
Feminists in India applaud their abortion rights – but they don’t extend to Dalit women | Shreeja Rao
The cost of reproductive care and the discrimination we face leaves my community effectively excluded from any…
- Dalits, Fashion industry, Garment workers, Global development, H&M, India, South and Central Asia, World news
Murder, rape and abuse in Asia’s factories: the true price of fast fashion
Jeyasre Kathiravel’s death exposed the epidemic of violence facing workers making clothes for the UK high stre…
- Culture, Dalits, Documentary films, Domestic violence, Education, Film, Global development, Nepal, Poverty, Social exclusion, Society, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘The heaven of film-making’: how a Dalit orphan got to tell her own story
A gift of a camera inspired Belmaya Nepali to rise above poverty and abuse to make documentaries• I Am Belmaya…
- Culture, Dalits, Documentary films, Film, Life and style, Nepal, South and Central Asia, Women, World news
I Am Belmaya review – uplifting story of a Nepali woman following her film-making dream
In the face of many obstacles, a Dalit woman proves her determination to forge a career as a film-makerAfter s…
- Dalits, Global development, Human rights, India, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Gail Omvedt: US sociologist who ‘lived by her principles’ among India’s poor
The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for wo…
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‘Stop patronising me and give me an interview’: the female journalists speaking up for India’s poor
India’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers expla…
- Child marriage, Child rights, Children, Children's rights, Coronavirus, Dalits, Forced marriage, Gender, Global development, India, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘We can do anything’: the Indian girls’ movement fighting child marriage
At 17, Priyanka Bairwa refused her arranged marriage. Instead, she started Rajasthan Rising to help thousands …
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Caste aside: hide names to curb Dalit job bias in India, study says
Concealing candidates’ surnames in the ultra-competitive civil service exam would help to overcome caste preju…