Dalit Women Fight Back!

Dalit Women Fight Back!

"I think that no woman is free until Dalit women are free ... we are calling out to the UN to take active steps to end violence against Dalit women ... caste is not cultural, caste is criminal, and no culture and no tradition allows this kind of brutality"

Ms. Asha Kowtal, General Secretary of All India Dalit Mahila Adhikar Manch questioning the role of United Nations in combating caste based violence

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...  Our rights are like the rising sun, who can deny us the sunrise, all we need is solidarity ...

... the silence of caste must end, speak out with us, join us, we need loud and clear support ...



 SPEAKING UP - Dalit Women Fight to be Seen and Heard
 APR 7, 2014 - BY ADRIENNE VOGT

Dalit women are widely targeted by rapists simply because they are part of the Untouchable caste. Asha Kowtal and Thenmozhi Soundararajan have rallied the roughly 80 million Dalit women around the world to tell them they don’t have to suffer in silence.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2014/04/07/dalit-women-fight-to-be-seen-and-heard.html