-Press release by Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) dated 9th September, 2021 Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN), today, released its new report on forced evictions in India. Titled, Forced Evictions in India in 2020: A Grave Human Rights Crisis During the Pandemic, this report presents comprehensive data and an analysis of forced evictions and demolitions of homes of the urban and rural poor across the country in 2020. It...
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'Who Is Afraid of Women's Voices?' Ask Tamil dalit Writers After DU Drops Them from Syllabus -Kavitha Muralidharan
-TheWire.in 'Both Bama and Sukirtharani have consistently written on the rights of women, liberation of the oppressed and the strength of humanity.' Chennai: Sukirtharani distinctly remembers the two years she had spent undergoing teacher’s training at her hometown, Ranipet in Tamil Nadu. “Every single day of those two years, I encountered them. I have watched them from a distance, walked along in silence. I have been a witness to the casual humiliation they...
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-Newslaundry.com Srishti Jatav says the police held her for three hours, snatched away her phone and deleted the videos she had made. “I had learned that Delhi Development Authority and Delhi police officials were at Dhobi Ghat, Jamia Nagar, to remove some slum dwellings. When I reached there to cover it, the police took me and my cameraman Raju into custody,” she told Newslaundry. “The police first snatched away our camera and...
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-The Telegraph Prime accused Dinesh Mahto of Bahadurpur village — in the home district of chief minister Nitish Kumar — is in hiding, police said Patna: A dalit youth died after being beaten, tied to bricks and thrown into a stream at a Bihar village on Sunday, allegedly for demanding the 10kg rice promised to him for a day’s labour in a well-to-do farmer’s field. Prime accused Dinesh Mahto of Bahadurpur village in...
More »Discrimination during pandemic, cyclones puts lives of dalits at risk -Debabrat Patra and Evangelina Patro
-Down to Earth Lower caste communities are ostracised and denied access to rehabilitation facilities during natural disasters The malpractices of untouchability and caste-based discrimination, although banned in India, continues unabated in several districts of Odisha. During a natural calamity, they turn into a greater menace as the ostracised people are denied access to rehabilitation facilities. dalit communities Keuta, Kandara and Siara in Puri district, who sell fish to survive, suffered a major financial...
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