Topic: Dalit women
Dalit women forced to show menstrual proof at Haryana University: DASAM condemns ‘grotesque violation’ of dignity, privacy
Dalit Adivasi Shakti Adhikar Manch (DASAM) has strongly condemned a shocking incident at Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) in Rohtak, Haryana, where women sanitation workers were allegedly forced by their supervisors to provide “photographs of their private parts and sanitary pads” as proof that they were menstruating.
From Delhi University to SOAS: Witnessing the gatekeeping of Savarna feminism and the rise of Dalit Feminism
Savarna feminism, a strand of Indian feminism led by upper/privileged caste Hindu women that centers their experiences while ignoring the realities of caste and religion, like white feminism, is built on a false universalism. It centers the voices, bodies, and experiences of upper-caste Hindu women while claiming to represent all women.
Dalit working woman falsely accused of theft, harassed, denied food during 20-hour custody; SC/ST commission orders probe
A 39-year-old Dalit domestic worker from Kerala, Bindu R, has accused the police at Peroorkada station of wrongful detention, custodial harassment, and denying her basic rights, after she was falsely implicated in a gold theft case.
Assaulted by upper-caste Hindu neighbours, no action on police complaint; Dalit nurse dies by suicide in Rajasthan
A 26-year-old Dalit nurse died by suicide on May 2, after allegedly being molested and assaulted by her upper-caste Hindu neighbours in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur district.
UP: Dalit woman crushed to death in Bulandshahr, five injured after SUV attack by upper-caste Hindu men
A 62-year-old Dalit woman, Sheela Devi, was crushed to death and five others seriously injured after a group of upper-caste Hindu men allegedly ran them over multiple times with an SUV in a targeted attack late Monday night in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr.
UP: Dalit woman raped at gunpoint infront of 4-year-old son
A 40-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped at gunpoint in front of her four-year-old son in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district near Agra, police said on Tuesday.
