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Conference on The Scourge of Scavenging: Revisiting the Question of Sanitation/Scavenging/Scavengers

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  [Via Dr. B. Ravichandran] The Scourge of Scavenging: Revisiting the Question of Sanitation/Scavenging/ScavengersDate: 08-Nov-2017 to 10-Nov-2017Event Type: National SeminarVenue of Event: Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies.Last date for abstract: August 15th 2017 Concept Note  India has been consistently critiqued, locally and globally, for its inability to ban the inhuman practice of manually …

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ಮೋದಿಯ ನಾಡಲ್ಲಿ ಸಫಾಯಿ ಕರ್ಮಕಾಂಡಗಳ ಜಾಡು ಹಿಡಿದು….

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  ಮಂಜುನಾಥ ನರಗುಂದ (Manjunath Naragund) ಭಿನಾ ಸುಮಾರು 55 ವರ್ಷದ ದಲಿತ ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಡೋಮ ಜಾತಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿದ ವಿಧವೆ, ಕಳೆದ 30 ವರ್ಷಗಳಿಂದ ಬನಾರಸ್ ಹಿಂದೂ ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದ ಹತ್ತಿರವಿರುವ ಸುಂದರಪುರ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಫಾಯಿ ಕರ್ಮಚಾರಿಯಾಗಿ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾಳೆ.ಭಿನಾಳಂತೆ ಈ ಪ್ರದೇಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಇದೆ ಜಾತಿಗೆ ಸೇರಿದ ಸುಮಾರು 200ಕ್ಕೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ದಲಿತ ಸಮುದಾಯದ ಜನರು ನೆಲೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.ಭಿನಾ ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ ಒಂದೊಂದು ಪ್ರದೇಶವೆಂಬಂತೆ ಬೆಳಗಿನ 6ಗಂಟೆಯಿಂದ ಮದ್ಯಾಹ್ನ 2 ಅಥವಾ 4ಗಂಟೆಯವರೆಗೆ ವಾರಣಾಸಿಯನ್ನು ಚೊಕ್ಕವಾಗಿಡುವಲ್ಲಿ ದಿನವಿಡಿ ಶ್ರಮವಹಿಸಿ ದುಡಿಯುತ್ತಾಳೆ.ಇವಳ ಈ …

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Casteless kitchens of casteist households

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  Abul Kalam Azad “Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers” ~ B. R.  Ambedkar Recently, a big revelation penetrated the national media with considerable sensationalism – according to the results of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS-2), the largest pan-Indian non-government household survey, which involved surveyors asking …

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Manual Scavenging at JNU

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Chennai based Forum Against Manual Scavenging (FAMS), who can be contacted at famschennai@gmail.com A documentary, ‘Sahar se Pehle’ (Before the Dawn), on sanitation workers in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in New Delhi was made by few students of the university. The JNUSU has been consistently raising the issue of abysmally bad condition of …

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European Parliament adopts historic resolution on Dalits

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  International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) Press release A strongly worded resolution on caste discrimination in India was debated and adopted today by the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The Parliament condemned the high number of atrocities committed against Dalits in India and the Indian government’s insufficient action on the issue of caste discrimination. Copenhagen (IDSN), …