by Liakat Ali Badal in Dhaka Tribune 25 Dec 2023Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman and party candidate for Rangpur-3 GM Quader claimed on Sunday that northern Bangladesh, the Rangpur region in particular, has been facing discrimination and deprivation in both political and development fields for a long time. “The people of Rangpur have always faced discrimination in both politics and development as JaPa Party is the biggest political party of the northern region… the whole northern…
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by Parbat Portel in The Kathmandu Post,Dec 16, 2023Two months ago, Ranju Bishwakarma’s daily routine was abruptly interrupted when Sita Dahal, a milkmaid, informed her that she would no longer sell milk to Ranju. It had been only two days since Ranju had started buying cow milk from Sita. Sita told Ranju that ever since she started selling milk to her, her cow fell ill and so did her family members. Ranju, a Dalit woman…
by Mahesh KC in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 6, 2023Rukum West: In a landmark verdict, the West Rukum District Court on Tuesday sentenced 24 individuals to life imprisonment on murder charges, and two others to two years in prison and a fine of Rs50,000 each on charges of practising caste-based discrimination and untouchability. A single bench of Judge Khadga Bahadur KC of the district court gave the sentencing in relation to the killing of six…
by Mohan Shahi in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 12, 2023Sarita Dayali, has been buying milk from a restaurant nearby ever since the milkman refused to sell her milk a couple of years ago. Dayali is from the Dalit community and is the district chief of the Feminist Dalit Organisation in Silgadhi, the district headquarters of Doti. Dayali, a mother of two children, has been living in the district headquarters for almost a decade. Although she…
report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 10, 2023Member of Parliament Prabhu Hajara joined the Communist Party three and a half decades ago to end discrimination against the Dalit community in the society. He currently represents the CPN (UML) in the House of Representatives after being elected under the proportional representation (PR) election system. MP Hajara says that there was a lot of discrimination in the society towards the Dalit community in the past but many changes have…
report in Nepalnews, July 30 at 18:09 hrsDalit community leaders have demanded a stern action against the culprits in a case of caste-based discrimination in Bajhang. At a press meet here today, they expressed their serious concern over the demolition of the under-construction house of a Dalit by a group of non-Dalits at Syaldhunga of Bitthadchir rural municipality-7. The incident happened on July 26. A group of over 40 non-dalits allegedly demolished the house being…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, June 16, 2023 at 10:53 PMA report authored by the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan Richard Bennett, and the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, indicated “widespread and systematic discrimination to which women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected.” According to the report, between September 2021 and May 2023, more than 50 edicts were issued regarding women and girls by the Islamic Emirate, which has “deprived Afghan women…