-The Telegraph Rights group demands that the cases be tried in fast-track courts New Delhi: A leading dalit rights group on Wednesday described the fatal gang rape and torture of a teenaged dalit girl in Hathras as the tip of an iceberg of atrocities against deprived segments of the population in Uttar Pradesh. The National Campaign on dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) blamed the indifference of the police for the increasing assaults on dalit...
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CSOs condemn the rising atrocities against dalit women and minor girls in Uttar Pradesh
-Press release by All India dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch (AIDMAM) and National dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ) dated 30th September 2020 In a joint statement, AIDMAM and NDMJ have condemned the rising atrocities against dalit women in Uttar Pradesh. Please click here to access the press statement dated 30th September 2020. For more information, please contact: Dr.Debjani Naskar Media Coordinator NDMJ-NCDHR Mobile: 9990093005 Email: debjani@ncdhr.org ...
More »UP Police Locked Us Up, Didn't Allow Us to See Body, Cremated Her at 3 am: Hathras Victim's Family -Ismat Ara
-TheWire.in The Wire travels to the house of the dalit victim in a village dominated by upper caste Thakur households. Hathras, Uttar Pradesh: For a fortnight, the dalit gang rape victim from Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district fought for her life. Her limbs were paralysed and her tongue was brutally wounded. Those arrested for the crime were four upper caste Thakur men, Sandeep (20), his uncle Ravi (35) and their friends Luv Kush (23)...
More »The BJP’s widening social base -Vikas Pathak
-The Hindu Securing largely upper caste-OBC alliances has propelled the BJP to great heights and has also impacted dalit politics Political alignments in Bihar for the forthcoming elections offer a peek into the various ways the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constructs its electoral building blocks. Taking into consideration the specificities of each State, the NDA has been able to secure the votes of the upper castes as well as large sections...
More »Report exposes increase in atrocities against dalits; former CJI KG Balakrishnan calls for better law enforcement -Divya Trivedi
-Frontline.in Crimes against dalits continued to rise despite a nationwide lockdown and the coronavirus pandemic. The National dalit Movement for Justice (NDMJ) has documented more than 100 cases of atrocities from April to June that include lynchings, untouchability practices, mass atrocities and violence against dalit women. In Maharashtra, rumours were spread about a dalit man and his family being COVID positive. They were attacked and asked to leave the village. In Haryana,...
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