The National Tribunal – Violence against Dalit Women in India (on 30th September and 1st October, 2013, at the Constitution Club in New Delhi) was conceived in the …
Take the law to Jind – Declare Haryana as atrocity prone area
Committed women activists and Dalit human rights defenders gathered in front of Haryana Bhavan today to protest against the silence of the Haryana Government regarding …
Mashaal Rally at Jantar Mantar
Vinayakala Korvi As fellow Savari members started to mobilize on facebook and email in response to Asha Kowtal’s call to support the Mashaal Rally, I joined …
Crossing endogamic boundaries
Anu Ramdas In the aftermath of Ilavarasan’s horrific death, dalit movements and leaders in Tamil Nadu have raised the need for a law against honor …
Dalit women on intersections of violence and discrimination at HRC 23 in the UN
Asha Kowtal The event is sponsored by IMADR, Human Rights Watch and Minority Rights Group, co-sponsored by Germany, Canada, Norway, Finland and Denmark and organized …
Untouchable Rape
Challapalli Swarooparani This is untouchable Sunitha, the once-upon-a-time girl you all forgot, speaking: I address myself as untouchable because in this land just as there …
Dalit Mahila Garima Yatra: Updates from the Karwan
Asha Kowtal Following the spate of media reports of gang rapes on dalit women in Haryana, several dalit organizations came together to express solidarity with …
Dalit women activists on Haryana
Compiled by Minakshee Rode This article highlights the viewpoints of dalit activists who are on the ground meeting rape survivors and their families in Haryana. This …
Whipping up ‘critical pedagogy’: Uncritical defense of NCERT’s violence
SAVARI Universally, the imagery of a whip evokes the reality of violence throughout human history. The whip is inseparable from violence against slaves, dalits, women, …
Anti-violence Forum Mission
SAVARI Caste and Violence Caste violence stems from the inherent notion that superiority based on birth in the caste order is reason enough to hate, despise and …