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Proposed by Senator Aisha Wahab, the invoice, which might outlaw caste discrimination towards Dalits within the US state, is accepted by state’s Senate Judiciary Committee by 8-0 votes. “We have hit a nerve and uncovered a type of discrimination many by no means even knew existed,” says Senator Aisha Waha. (AP Archive) A invoice that…
Senator Aisha Wahab, the primary Muslim and Afghan American elected to state legislature, introduces invoice and calls caste discrimination “a social justice and civil rights problem.” India’s caste system is among the many world’s oldest types of inflexible social stratification. (AP) California might turn into the primary US state to outlaw caste-based discrimination, a safeguard…
Toronto District College Board turns into first within the nation to recognise caste discrimination in metropolis’s faculties, weeks after Seattle turned first US metropolis to outlaw caste discrimination. Activists opposing caste discrimination say it’s no completely different from different types of discrimination like racism and therefore must be outlawed. (Reuters Archive) Toronto’s college board has…
College ban on feminine college students is one among a number of restrictions imposed on ladies because the Taliban stormed again to energy in August 2021 and has sparked international outrage. A number of Taliban officers say the ban on ladies’s schooling is non permanent however, regardless of guarantees, they’ve didn’t reopen secondary faculties for…
Ordinance authorized by 6-1 vote had assist of Dalit activist-led organisations like Equality Labs and others who say caste discrimination is prevalent in diaspora communities. Dalit activists from Seattle and past rallied at Seattle Metropolis Corridor in assist of the ordinance, stated Thenmozhi Soundararajan, founder and govt director of California-based Equality Labs. (AP) Seattle has…