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International Dalit Solidarity Network’s recommendations for 60th session of UN Human Rights Council
9th September 2025
The 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council will take place from 8 September, 2025, to 8 October, 2025. In connection with their participation, International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) has developed and shared policy and advocacy recommendations to ensure UN Member States meaningfully consider the ongoing and systemic challenge of caste-based discrimination. Key recommendations include establishing caste- and gender-sensitive policies that address the compounding discrimination that Dalit women face; removing caste-based barriers to safe drinking water and sustainable energy; recognising caste-based discrimination as a barrier to legal remedy and justice; and enforcing existing legislation to end exploitative caste-based [..]
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Welcoming Programme Officer DSN UK
12th August 2025
DSN UK is extremely pleased to welcome on board MS Chandni Sai Ganesh as our Programme Officer. She has begun her role from 1st August 2025. Chandni completed MA in Gender and Development at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. A research scholar, she studies caste, gender, diaspora, and abolition. She also co-leads the Brighton Ambedkar Reading Circle and facilitates groups with the mental health organisation Hank Nunn Institute, India.Her grandparents migrated from Kerala, India, to the United Arab Emirates, where she was born and raised. In her free time, she writes letters to prisoners and supports refugees [..]
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Historic ruling, no more fooling
23rd July 2025
DSN UK hopes this will spread worldwide DSN UK rejoices as the U.S. Federal Court Delivers Landmark Judgment Affirming Civil Rights for the Caste Oppressed. We hope justice will be brought to every corner of the world where people bear the brunt of Caste-based Discrimination and wait for justice for centuries together. Annapurna Waughray, a long time friend of DSN UK and Professor of Human Rights Law, Manchester Metropolitan University says, "“On 18 July California's District Court (Eastern District) held that the Plaintiffs, HAF (represented by former CISCO employees Kompella and Iyer) and a group of individual plaintiffs, lack legal [..]
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Join in for changing mindsets and building perspectives
18th July 2025
Songs of Justice with Sambhaji Bhagat 📅 Sunday, 20 July · 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM 📍 Leicester Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, LE1 1WB Join us for an unforgettable cultural evening with Sambhaji Bhagat, a renowned Ambedkarite singer, poet, and performer known for his powerful anti-caste and social justice songs. Blending traditional folk rhythms with sharp political commentary, Bhagat brings the spirit of resistance alive through music that speaks to both the heart and the conscience. Performing primarily in Hindi, his songs confront inequality, injustice, and oppression—offering messages of hope, dignity, and solidarity. Sambhaji Bhagat’s performances are stirring, thought-provoking, and deeply rooted [..]
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An opportunity to walk through…
18th July 2025
Oplus_16777216 What does it mean to live in a society where the doors look open—but aren’t? Who gets to belong, and who gets to be left outside? Join us for an unflinching conversation with cultural theorist and educator Professor Ravikant Kisana, widely known as the Buffalo Intellectual, as we discuss his groundbreaking new book, Meet the Savarnas. The book turns the spotlight on India’s privileged upper-caste millennials and how their unexamined advantages have shaped the country’s institutions, culture, and future. In this event, we’ll explore themes of caste privilege, mediocrity disguised as merit, and the quiet ways exclusion operates in [..]
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