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Crime against Dalits: Civil Rights Violation and Atrocities in India: The discussion here is focus on progress of these two legal safeguards and patterns of crime against dalits since inception of these tow legal measures.
Caste Women and Justice: how the Judicial Pronouncements of the courts delivered in the context caste atrocities and sati
Well-being and Caste in Uttar Pradesh: Why UP Is Not Like Tamil Nadu: why UP’s social indicators, including the health and education status of the lower castes, are much worse than in Tamil Nadu – despite the lower caste mobilisation over the last decade and a half argues Santosh Mehrota
‘The Higher You Go, the Less Caste Matters’: Scholar and senior economist, a dalit and a Buddhist, Planning Commission member Bhalchandra Mungekar Talks to Shivam Vij about identity and reservations
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On Funding and the NGO Sector, Nilanjana Biswas: NGOs are an entrenched part of the system, an institutionalised force, from whom we must demand accountability even as we continue to ally with them through critical engagement
Peoples' experiments in politics, Mukul Sharma: The proposed India Social Forum in Delhi from November 9 to 13 marks an initiative to further advance the movement against neo-liberal globalisation, sectarian politics, casteism, patriarchy, and militarisation.
Dalit future: A matter of concern: There is no need to stress what is all too well-known: the dalits have a major problem on hand and a matter of concern says M.V. Kamath.
Let the rich go to the dogs By Kancha Ilaiah
Women Right: land is ours! by Keya Acharya
Pakistani Dalits: Long Behind Schedule By Zulfiqar Shah: It is a case of being twice condemned for the Dalits of Pakistan - the ostracised group within a minority.
The fear of democracy of the privileged, P. Sainath: The 50th death anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is a time to remember that the larger society ignores or distorts the Dalits' struggle for their rights at its own risk.
Muslims, The New Underclass, by Praful Bidwai: Remedy: affirmative action
Toward a Theory of a Right to Health: One would be hard pressed to find a more controversial or nebulous human right than the right to health - a right that stems primarily, although not exclusively, from Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Dalit future: A matter of concern: There is no need to stress what is all too well-known: the dalits have a major problem on hand and a matter of concern says M.V. Kamath.
Closing the Gap: India long way to go in achieving gender equity: The report on Gender Gap Index measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women, namely, economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment and health and survival aspects.
Social Development Index: addressing social equity: development began to focuses on people with the rationale that improving people’s lives that ultimately improve social development as its objective
India’s Social Development: addressing Social Equity in Development
Sex Selective Abortion in Haryana: Evidence from Pregnancy History and Antenatal Care
Engagement with Dalit feminism: First person accounts of Dalit women bringing alive the profound deprivation they faced and their struggles
Women and Children the double dividend of gender equality: State of the World's Children 2007
Closing the Gap: India long way to go in achieving gender equity: The report on Gender Gap Index measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women, namely, economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, political empowerment and health and survival aspects.
Caste Kinship and the other Enemies of Love
On Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (2006, Aarti Banerjee
WOMEN'S DAY-INDIA: Two Steps Forward, One Backward
Intra Group Inequality: Muslim women more vulnerable
On International Women's Day 2007
Dalits, Panchayat Raj and Power Equations, By Goldy M. George
INDIA: Dalit Woman Stages a Political Revolution Analysis by Praful Bidwai
Development or Developmental Terrorism? By Amit Bhaduri
We need to fight patriarchy, not men’: In an exclusive interview to InfoChange, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi explains why culture should be dissociated from religion, why Islam is not incompatible with human rights, and how women all over the world – not just in Islamic countries – suffer injustice
Elites and Equality by M. Mohanty
Status of children in India: With more than a third of its population below the age of 18, India has the largest child population in the world. This backgrounder explores the levels of health, nutrition, education and social security of children, and government policy and action on child rights
What does the budget have to do with children? By Ajay Kumar Sinha
Equity and Empowerment of Tribals in India
One year of NREGA – Are Dalits Faring Any Better Today?
Against the Grain by Arjun Sen Gupta
The caste system — India’s apartheid? by Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Child Nutrtion: stumbling from the start
Hunger stalks rising India