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NEPAL: Enhance Dalit Women’s Roles In Public Life

September 17, 2025October 21, 2025 - Leave a Comment

Dalit women continue to experience systematic exclusion from decision-making roles at all levels of government, despite the constitutional guarantee of inclusion. Although the constitution guarantees their economic, social and political …

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INDIA: AI is learning caste bias in India. Who will audit it for discriminations?

September 16, 2025October 6, 2025 - Leave a Comment

A young recruiter in Bengaluru told me that the algorithm doesn’t discriminate. “It just looks at data.” I wanted to believe him.  As a content and brand marketer who’s embraced …

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Dalit man brutally beaten over false theft charge dies days later

September 4, 2025October 21, 2025 - Leave a Comment

The small Dalit settlement of Bahadurpur, which lies around 500 metres to the southwest of Katahariya Bazar in Rautahat district, has been shrouded in grief for over a week. On …

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INDIA: Christian and Muslim Dalits excluded from benefits granted by the state of Maharashtra

August 27, 2025October 21, 2025 - Leave a Comment

Dalits (so-called “outcastes”) who convert to Christianity or Islam will lose the privileges and prerogatives granted by law to the “scheduled castes,” the official definition of various historically disadvantaged social …

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NEPAL. Enhance Dalit Women’s Roles In Public Life

August 22, 2025September 1, 2025 - Leave a Comment

Dalit women continue to experience systematic exclusion from decision-making roles at all levels of government, despite the constitutional guarantee of inclusion. Although the constitution guarantees their economic, social and political …

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NEPAL: ‘Bring integrated law on Dalit’s rights’

August 22, 2025September 5, 2025 - Leave a Comment

The Dalit rights activists and political leaders have urged the government to bring an integrated law relating to Dalit rights. The law should be brought to enforce the fundamental right …

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INDIA: What Happens When The Margins Are Marginalised? Mx. Yashika, Caste, And The Crisis Within India’s Trans Movement

August 1, 2025September 1, 2025 - Leave a Comment

Mx. Yashika’s story begins not with triumph, but with a tremor. One that cuts through the tattered jacket of solidarity in India’s trans rights movement. A Dalit trans scholar from …

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INDIA: Persecuted for Faith: The Growing Hostility Toward Christians in India

July 31, 2025August 1, 2025 - Leave a Comment

On July 26, 2025, two Catholic nuns – Sister Preeti Mary and Sister Vandana Francis of the Assisi Sisters of Mary Immaculate (ASMI) – were arrested at Durg Railway Station …

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NEPAL: Dangers of ethnicising Dalits

July 25, 2025August 1, 2025 - Leave a Comment

On July 15, 2025, the final round of a caste-based beauty pageant called “Mr and Miss Bishwakarma” took place in Kathmandu. It was the fourth annual event organised by a …

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BANGLADESH: 6 Islamists abducted and gang-raped a Janajatiya Hindu girl in Khagracherri

July 25, 2025August 1, 2025 - Leave a Comment

The Persecution of the Hindu minorities continue in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh. A fresh case has been reported from the Khagracherri district of Bangladesh where Islamists abducted and gang-raped a Janajatiya …

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Ambedkar Society for South Asia (ASSA) works for the promotion of Dr Ambedkar Philosophy of Social Justice for uplifting of oppressed and marginalized minority communities of South Asia prominent including Dalits Community. Dr Ambedkar’s philosophy addresses issues and needs of socially, economically and politically deprived, neglected, down trodden and caste ridden society of South Asia. ASSA is to pave a path to bring the followers of Baba Sahib Ambedkar together and make joint effort to save minorities and lower caste poor people of South Asian region from oppression and exploitation.

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