Equality Now analyzed 40 rape cases and revealed how the justice system is failing survivors. Reports of sexual violence against women of lower castes in India are on the rise, and a new report details how the justice system is […]
Two men beat to death a 50-year-old Dalit farm worker in Karod village of Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district for allegedly not having a matchbox, NDTV reported on Sunday. The accused – Yash Yadav and Ankesh Yadav – attacked Lalji Ram […]
Both men were arrested on Sunday, he said. “The brothers suspected that their sister was involved in an illicit relationship, and hence they killed her, and also killed their mother to give another twist to the case,” he said. Two […]
A chilling new report by Swabhiman Society and Equality Now highlights how India’s criminal justice system lets down Dalit women and girls who are victims of caste-based sexual violence Even as India reels from the news of the Hathras gang-rape […]
Thellar police had invoked provisions of SC/ST Act in an electrocution case Wondering how provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989 can be invoked in an electrocution case, the Madras High Court has […]
The complainant Santram Dohra, had lodged a complaint against the accused Pavan Yadav over the difference in wage payment in 2018. Two Dalit men were thrashed, and their house was set on fire by a group of 15 men in […]
Campaigners in India are demanding justice for a Muslim woman who was allegedly burned to death by a Hindu man and his friends in the eastern province of Bihar. Gulnaz Khatoon, 20, was burned after the accused poured kerosene over […]
During the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence from the 25th of November to the 10th of December, the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens contributes to the Orange the World Campaign globally and in Austria, calling for the […]
Content warning: this story contains descriptions of rape and sexual assault that might be triggering to some readers. INDIA – A 19-year-old Dalit woman was gang-raped in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh, on Sept. 14. The woman, of a lower caste, […]
In yet another horrific incident from the state of Uttar Pradesh, a 15-year-old girl, who was from the Dalit community, lost her life on Tuesday allegedly after being set on fire by seven acquaintances of a man who had allegedly […]
