Dalit Women Sanitation Workers and the Fight for Water and Dignity’, documents the huge barriers faced by Dalit (sometimes called “Untouchable”) women sanitation workers in Bangladesh, in accessing ...

Research into judgements from 1950 to 2025 suggests India's top court often reinforces caste hierarchies in language, even while upholding Dalit rights.

Rohit De and Ornit Shani’s new book, Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History, traces the demands put ...

Dr. Dalit Baum teaches gender and the global economy at the Haifa University and Beit Berl college in Israel. A feminist anti-occupation activist, she has been a co-founder of Black Laundry, the ...

Residents of Bajura's Muktikot village prepare to head to India for work after failing to find jobs at home. Photo: DHANU BISHWAKARMA "I shut down my poultry farm as the villagers did not buy fresh ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Dalit Baum is a Co-Founder for Who Profits from the Occupation Initiative in the Coalition for Women for Peace in Israel with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...

Flood impacted Dalit house in Rajapur, Bardiya, in 2010. Last week, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) warned that this year's monsoon might cause even more ...

Indian immigrants from Dalit backgrounds are rising up against caste discrimination at their workplaces in the United States. By Yashica Dutt Ms. Dutt is the author of the memoir, “Coming Out as a ...

India’s “untouchables” have attracted attention around the world. Assigned from birth to an inferior station in society, the untouchables are the victim of institutional discrimination. This situation ...

On Aug. 27, Pope Francis will create 21 new cardinals at a consistory at the Vatican. The new cardinals include the first Indian cardinal from the socially poor Dalit community – Archbishop Anthony ...

The day he was baptized, N. Biswokarma felt as if he were freed from the dark chambers at the bottom of the centuries-old Hindu caste hierarchy. “I am happy to become a Catholic and feel like a ...