PROFESSIONAL WORK & BATTLE AGAINST “UNTOUCHABILITY” Upon completing his education abroad, Ambedkar returned to Bombay as a barrister, established a successful legal practice and, in 1924, founded the Bahishkrit Hitkarini Sabha (Association for the Depressed Classes) to promote the spread of education among the socially and politically downtrodden, to improve their economic status, and [...]
Archive for October, 2008
PROFESSIONAL WORK & BATTLE AGAINST “UNTOUCHABILITY”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Against UNTOUCHABILITY, Battle against Untouchability, fight against untiuchability, Professional Work, untouchability on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Land Rights
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Land, land reform legislation, Laws and regulations, Rights on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Most Dalit victims of violence and discrimination are landless agricultural laborers. In rural areas, where caste discrimination is most entrenched, land is the main asset determining an individual’s social status and standard of living. Dalits’ lack of access to land makes them economically vulnerable and dependent upon their upper- and middle-caste landlords. This [...]
Dalit Rights in Disaster Management
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalit Rights, Disaster, Management on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
India is prone to natural disasters because of its peculiar geo-climatic conditions. Floods, landslides, droughts, cyclones, earthquakes are recurring phenomena. Dalits are invariably the most vulnerable section during any natural disaster and least likely to be able t o access to aid when it become available. Any disaster affects all sections of people [...]
Rights to Criminal Justice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Criminal, Criminal Justice, Rights on October 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rights to Criminal Justice khairlanji (Maharashtra) one of the latest incidents of gruesome violence against Dalits where all in a family except one was brutally killed by uppercastes undertakes daily monitoring of secondary media sources (newspapers, internet, etc.) in order to find all reported Dalit Human Rights violations that have taken [...]
The Dalit Human Rights Situation
Posted in Human Rights, tagged DALIT, Human Rights on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Overview of Dalit Human Rights Situation The Dalit Human Rights Situation: A Brief Overview Over one-sixth of India’s population, some 170 million people, live a precarious existence, shunned by much of Indian society because of their rank as “untouchables” or Dalits—literally meaning “broken” people—at the bottom of India’s caste system. Dalits are discriminated against, denied access to land and basic resources, forced [...]
Dalits & Human Rights
Posted in Human Rights, tagged Dalits & Human Rights, Human, Human Rights on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dalits & Human Rights : The Battles Ahead — I There are more dalits in India than there are people in Pakistan. The Scheduled Castes account for nearly 16.48 per cent of India’s people. That is, over 160 million human beings. Their contribution to society in terms of labour, art and culture is enormous. [...]
WHO ARE THE DALIT?
Posted in Human Rights, tagged Against Dalits, Anti-Dalit, DALIT on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In South Asia’s caste system, a Dalit (Hindi: ????) — formerly known as untouchable or achuta — is a person outside of the four Varnas, and considered below of all and polluting. Dalits include people as leather-workers, scavengers, tanners, flayers, cobblers, agricultural labourers, municipal cleaners, gymnasts, drum beaters, folk musicians and street handicraft persons. [...]
Dalit woman gang raped
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalit woman, gang raped, woman on October 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A married Dalit woman was reportedly gang raped on Sunday near here at Sripuram village in the limits of Sindhanoor town police station. Chandramma, wife of Anjaneya Harijan, was the victim. According to the sources, on Sunday Shivappa Kabber, Narashimhalu, Murthy and Amaresh raped Chandramma when she had gone to collect firewood near the [...]
Sexual assault on Dalit woman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalit woman, Sexual, Sexual assault on Dalit woman on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Dalit woman who went to collect sticks was reportedly sexually assaulted by three persons at Sripuram of Sindhnur taluk today. The accused are said to be Shivappa Kabbar, Narasimhalu Murthy and Amaresh belonging to the same village. While she was returning back after collecting the sticks, the trio are said to have teased [...]
Dalit family spends year in hut looking for justice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dalit family, looking for justice on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the past 374 days, Chatrabhai Savabhai hasn’t taken a break in his fight to get justice for his son. Even for his daughter’s wedding. She got married on Friday from the same shack in the compound of the Banaskantha District Collectorate in Palanpur that the 55-year-old has been living in for the past year, [...]
