Stop Kastendiscriminatie - Steun de Dalits!

Murders of Religious Minorities in India Go Unpunished, Report Finds
The New York Times, 18 feb 2019
The Indian authorities have delayed investigating a wave of vigilante-style murders of religious minorities, with many instead working to justify the attacks or file charges against some of the victims’ families, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. »

Ambassadors join the fight to end caste discrimination
persbericht IDSN, 5 feb 2019
A brand new IDSN Ambassadors Group is launched today. The group is made up of several highly distinguished human rights advocates, who will use their knowledge and skills to ensure that caste discrimination never falls off the global human rights agenda. »

Report finds entrenched caste discrimination in India’s criminal justice system
IDSN, 18 jan 2019
Criminal Justice in the Shadow of Caste is a pioneering report looking at the administration of criminal justice in India through a caste lens. The findings reveal discrimination at all levels, including within prisons. »

De universiteit ruimt plek in voor de 'onaanraakbare' Indiër
Het Financieele Dagblad, 23 dec 2018
ARM/RIJK is een serie van het FD over de tegenstelling tussen de onderste en de bovenste lagen van de bevolking over de gehele wereld. Deze aflevering: India, waar 15% van de plekken op universiteiten gereserveerd voor studenten van de laagste kaste. »

‘Statelessness’ of Dalit communities raised at UN Forum on Minority Issues
IDSN, 18 dec 2018
IDSN participated in the 11th Session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues, under the theme “Statelessness: A Minority Issue”. IDSN members from Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan outlined how Dalits often suffer statelessness due to extreme marginalization and lack of access to rights. »

New IDSN strategy presented at the General Assembly 2018
IDSN, 17 dec 2018
IDSN members and associates from across the globe met in Geneva in November for the IDSN General Assembly. The assembly spread over two days brimming with energy, new ideas, and determination to strengthen the fight for human rights, justice and equality for all, irrespective of caste. »

European Parliament calls on the EU to step up action at the UN and delegation levels to eliminate caste-based discrimination
persbericht IDSN, 12 dec 2018
IDSN welcomes today’s adoption of the European Parliament’s annual report on human rights and democracy in the world 2017 and the European Union’s policy on the matter. »

20 years of Dalit Human Rights
Asia Dalit Rights Forum, dec 2018
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) is celebrating their 20 years of championing Dalit rights in India. Prior to 1998, Dalit rights was considered as social evil and discriminatory practices, while not given due recognition from the human rights perspective. »

We have a dream
IDSN, 10 dec 2018
Today, as we celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the struggle to open the doors of the minds of people across the world to accept that all humans are of equal value and deserve equal rights remains one of the key challenges facing our societies. »

UN Special Rapporteur asks Nepal to act on violence against Dalit women
IDSN, 3 dec 2018
The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Dubravka Šimonovic made a preliminary assessment on violence against women in Nepal, after her official visit to the country, which took place from the 19 to the 29 November. »

De Dalits van Bathla bekeren zich, uit verzet
Trouw, 22 nov 2018
Een groeiende groep Dalits, de laagste kaste van India, bekeert zich tot het boeddhisme. Niet per se omdat dat geloof ze zo aanspreekt. Hun bekering is een daad van verzet tegen het kastensysteem. »

Het epische Reason, over radicaliserend India, heeft de hoofdprijs op het Idfa gewonnen
Volkskrant, 21 nov 2018
Vier uur durende studie van de Indiase samenleving. De Indiase regisseur Anand Patwardhan laat zien hoe religieus-nationalistische fundamentalisten met geweld en intimidatie de weg bereiden naar een sterk intolerant land. Hij schetst een samenleving waarin moslims, Dalits en rationalistische denkers hun leven niet zeker zijn. »

‘Tell Everyone We Scalped You!’ How Caste Still Rules in India
The New York Times, 17 nov 2018
Dalits are not just considered lower caste, but technically outcaste. Bound at the bottom of India’s Hindu society for centuries, the Dalit population, now estimated at more than 300 million, has been abused for as long as anyone can remember. And now, according to crime statistics, the violence against them is rising. »

VN-vrouwencommissie doet aanbevelingen aan Nepal om discriminatie Dalit-vrouwen aan te pakken
IDSN, 14 nov 2018
De CEDAW-Commissie is met haar slotbeschouwing gekomen, na de periodic review van Nepal. De commissie heeft kennisgenomen van een aantal zorgpunten m.b.t. Dalit-vrouwen en heeft relevante aanbevelingen gedaan. »

VN-commissie uit bezorgdheid over problemen Dalit-vrouwen in Nepal
IDSN, 5 nov 2018
VN-deskundigen spraken hun bezorgdheid uit over de problemen die gekozen Dalit-vrouwen in Nepal ondervinden, over de noodzaak van een evenredige integratie van Dalit-vrouwen en over de extreme armoede waarin veel Dalit-vrouwen verkeren. »

Republic Of Fear: ‘India is hostile to its weakest and poor, there is no justice for them’
The Polis Project, 15 okt 2018
India has always been a profoundly violent country. The routinized violence experienced by the country's marginalized - Dalits, Muslims, Adivasi, poor, women - is not only denied but also hidden behind a language of neutrality. »

Arundhati Roy: Arrestatie activisten in India ernstiger situatie dan Noodtoestand in jaren 70
The Hindu, 28 aug 2018
Na de arrestaties van mensenrechtenactivisten en advocaten zei schrijfster Arundhati Roy dat de situatie in het land "ernstiger" zou kunnen worden dan het was ten tijde van de Noodtoestand in het midden van de jaren zeventig. »