A bill that would make California the first state to ban caste discrimination cleared another hurdle this week when it was unanimously approved by the state Assembly Judiciary Committee, with one ...

So director and co-writer (with Jyotsna Nath) Pulkit designs Maalik, a film that gives Rajkummar Rao the chance to beat men ...

O n November 26, 2019, Brandeis University amended their nondiscrimination statement to include a new category: “caste.” From that point forward, caste would be “included within the ...

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India, April 12 -- 'Commitment' to the backwards communities is being promised and executed while ostracising the forward castes, which has not gone down well in the party.

An effort to ban caste discrimination in California has touched a nerve California would be the first state to explicitly ban the practice, but the process has been divisive.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have made California the first state in the country to expressly ban discrimination based on caste, stating that the measure was “unnecessary ...

California has moved one step closer to banning caste discrimination in the state. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include ...

Caste discrimination happens in the U.S., too. Activist and artist Thenmozhi Soundararajan discusses her book and her experience in California.

The Indian government officially abolished the caste system in 1950. But discrimination persists across South Asia against Dalits, a group of people from historically oppressed caste communities ...