Many (mostly privileged?) Nepalis on Twitter, on Facebook, & in real life have argued with me that there is no or hardly any #CasteBased #discrimination in #Nepal. That #Dalits (& other lower castes) r NOT discriminated. Here are some evidence countering that. 1/n
Here's a recent article detailing how a #Dalit MP has struggled to find a tenant to rent to her. She shared this with her fellow Parliamentarians. #Nepal 2/n onlinekhabar.com/2018/06/683695
Story of a #Dalit family chased out of their village by the family and relatives of the upper-caste woman the son had eloped with. 3/n #Nepal kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2014-01-0…
Very recent story of the murder of Mana Sarki, #Dalit woman and recently elected Ward member, by three other women. #Nepal 4/n kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-06-0…
I have seen memes arguing there is no #CasteBased #discrimination in #Nepal. In this blog post, I tear apart the flawed logic a meme uses to argue just that. n/n dorjegurung.com/blog/2016/03/t…
.Another story of discrimination of Dalits, this one in the Terai, the Southern Plains. #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/appointm…
.Another instance of #CasteBasedDiscrimination. Even after getting justice for assault with great difficulties - authorities dragged their feet & she faced oppositions - a #Dalit lady tried to kill herself, unable to bear d persecution & oppression. #Nepal nayapatrikadaily.com/2018/07/28/764…
.Some good news about Buddhi Maya. She will be getting the necessary medical treatment soon and all for free too. #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination nayapatrikadaily.com/2018/08/03/786…
.Correction: Buddha Maya, NOT Buddhi Maya.
.Yet another example of discrmination faced by Dalits, the lowest caste, in #Nepal.
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.Yet another example of caste-based discrimination faced by Dalits, the lowest caste, in #Nepal. In this case, they were assaulted for allegedly "touching the temple." #CasteBasedDiscrimination #CasteBasedViolence #HumanRightsAbuse
.Still another incident of caste-based violence. Following Dalit adults confronting those who had slapped one of wards for drinking water near the temple, got violently attacked & hospitalized! #Nepal #Discrimination #CasteSystem kantipurdaily.com/news/2018/09/1…
.Yet another incident of caste-based violence. A #Dalit was beaten up by a local representative, no less, & d police, characteristically, did NOT take any action for a whole month after the victim reported the incident. #Nepal #Discrimination #CasteSystem nepalkhabar.com/np/news/printm…
.Yet another incident of caste-based violence. A young man's family & others do everything they can to prevent him from living with his young wife, a #Dalit. Actions taken include physical violence & jailing the couple. #Nepal #Discrimination #CasteSystem annapurnapost.com/news/109357
.Sexual-labor, sexual-violence perpetrated against the low caste women...yet another example of their #discrimination & abuse. #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination #CasteSystem recordnepal.com/wire/untouchab…
.Yet another example of #CasteBasedDiscrmination. This one is about the halting of a mid-day meal program at a school on discovering that the cook was from Dom community, a #Dalit. #Nepal #CasteSystem thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/appointm…
.Want to know more about who and what the Dom's in Terai (the Southern Plains) are? Follow this link for a life of abuse and discrimination faced by a #Dom LEADER! #Nepal #CasteSystem dorjegurung.com/blog/2015/02/c…
.Yet another story -- this one in the @recordnepal -- of a #Dalit. A life of #CasteBasedDiscrimination, abuse, violation of basic #HumanRights, and time lost! #Nepal #CasteSystem recordnepal.com/perspective/in…
.And yet another story about discrimination of #Dalits. This one about #Bhadi women whose birth professions is apparently #prostitution. Many don't pursue it anymore & instead go to India & do other work. Even then, they are looked down upon in #Nepal. himalkhabar.com/news/9675
.Excellent article on discrimination of #Dalits (by @sarudarnal1988) centered around d murder of young Ajit for daring to elope with his high caste girlfriend. D police, far from investigating, colluded with d perpetrators to try to hide it. #Nepal recordnepal.com/podcast/the-ol…
.Uplifting story of a #Dalit woman overcoming incredible opposition & adversary!
"Neighbors torched Sona’s hut to discourage her and her siblings from attending school, but Sona and her brothers were still able to excel in their studies." #Nepal worldbank.org/en/news/featur…
"Neighbors torched Sona’s hut to discourage her and her siblings from attending school, but Sona and her brothers were still able to excel in their studies." #Nepal worldbank.org/en/news/featur…
.Yet another story of #discrimination faced by #Dalits in #Nepal. In this story, Dalits are neither allowed to use the taps in the village nor do the authorities help bring a tap for them. #CasteBasedDiscrimination #CasteSystem annapurnapost.com/news/115833
.More stories about #discrimination faced by #Dalits in #Nepal.
“We are treated like as if we were animals.” kantipurdaily.com/news/2019/01/1…
“We are treated like as if we were animals.” kantipurdaily.com/news/2019/01/1…
.English version of the Nepali article I shared above. #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination #ViolenceAgainstDalits kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-01-2…
.Yet another article describing how Dalit minors & women suffer from rape at a disproportionately higher rate & reparation lower. #CasteBasedDiscrimination #ViolenceAgainstDalits kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-01-2… via @sarudarnal1988
Here's the statistics about #Dalit girls and women being raped by MEN at a disproportionately higher rate. #CasteBasedDiscrimination #ViolenceAgainstDalits #RageAgainstRage 
.And here are the details about #Dalit rape victims being provided lower reparation & non-dalits NOT supporting a call for reparation of Dalit rape victims. #CasteBasedDiscrimination #ViolenceAgainstDalits #RageAgainstRage
.This is from just after d biggest natural calamity to strike d country -- d earthquakes of April 25 & May 12, 2015! Reports of discriminatory practices -- based on caste -- in providing relief materials came out then. #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination dorjegurung.com/blog/2015/06/s…
.Another story of #discrimination of #Dalits. This one about the Soithern Dalits not being granted citizenship card. #Nepal kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-02-0…
.correction: Soutern Dalits should read in a village in the Southern plains.
.Yet another story of #CasteBasedDiscrimination. A #Dalit woman is kicked out of her house. along with her baby, by her own husband & in-laws for being a...Dalit! #Nepal kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-02-1…
."Dalits see converting to Christianity as an escape from the caste system." #CasteBasedDiscrimination #Nepal kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-03-0…
.“Although parents enroll their children[...], they don’t send them to schools [...] due to lack of awareness & poor economic condition,” said Dolraj Pande, chief of d Education Development & Coordination Unit.
& they lack awareness & are poor because? kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-03-0…
& they lack awareness & are poor because? kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-03-0…
.Some effort, in Sindhupalchok, to curve the cultural practice of disapproving inter-caste marriage. #CasteBasedDiscrimination kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-06-0…
.A six--SIX--year-old #Dalit child drops out of school because of discrimination, and yet the principal, instead saying we'll investigate, says, "No student is ill-treated because of caste." #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/chief-min…
.Another example. This time a “man of the cloth” as it were (essentially a hill high caste Hindu Priest) declairing that he’s ready to die than touch and bless a #Dalit baby! #CasteBasedDiscriminatoon #CasteSystem #Nepal saighalikhabar.com/93143
.Another example. It describes the plight if a locally elected #Dalit woman. If a Dalit official is mistreated & abused in the way she was, how much must others be? And yet people do argue that there's no #CasteBasedDiscrimination. #Nepal kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2019-06-2…
.Article describing an experience where a hill high caste Hindu official believed, firstly, how affirmative action should be for d poor, instead of #Dalits, and secondly, #CasteBasedDiscrimination doesn’t exist anymore. #CasteSystem #Nepal kantipurdaily.com/opinion/2019/0…
.How the intersection of our judicial & social #Structures continue to criminalise those who are at the bottom, the #Dalits, in SECULAR #Nepal. #SystemicDiscrimination #CasteBasedDiscrimination #CasteSystem recordnepal.com/wire/criminali…
.A #Dalit woman beaten up for daring to remove a water container under a communal tap in order to drink some water. #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination onlinepurbeli.com/archives/2672
Correction: ...container *from* under...
.Another incident of a #Dalit woman being beaten up on the pretext of touching water container! #CasteBasedDiscrimination #Nepal diyopost.com/07/65396/
.Another #Dalit story via @munagrg.
"When her 2nd book, Juthi (Juthi, 2013) was brought out by Sajha Prakashan, Pancha Kumari became d 1st Dalit woman to be published by Nepal’s oldest & most reputable publication house." #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination nepalitimes.com/featured-video…
"When her 2nd book, Juthi (Juthi, 2013) was brought out by Sajha Prakashan, Pancha Kumari became d 1st Dalit woman to be published by Nepal’s oldest & most reputable publication house." #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination nepalitimes.com/featured-video…
@munagrg .Yet another story of #CasteBasedDiscrimination. The Principal of a school in the Southern Plains refuses to accept the chair of the school management committee simply because he is a #Dalit! #Nepal nayapatrikadaily.com/news-details/2…
.Yet another story of #CasteBasedDiscrimination. It’s been 10 months since the rape & murder of her daughter & yet she not been able to register the case with the local police. The reason? She is a #Dalit. #Nepal mahottaripost.com/news/10648/
Another article about the struggles of #Dalits. It includes update on the cases of Maya & Ajit, articles about whom I am pretty sure I shared in the past in this thread. #Nepal #CasteBasedDiscrimination kathmandupost.com/national/2019/…
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