India’s DNA data law seen to harm minorities, hurt privacy
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation A proposed Indian law on the collection and use of genetic data to tackle crime can violate privacy, and target minorities and marginalised communities disproportionately, according to technology experts and human rights groups. The DNA Technology Regulation Bill allows the profiling of victims, those accused of crimes, and those reported missing, […]
India’s low-caste women raped to keep them “in their place”
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Lower-caste Dalit women in northern India are targeted for rape by upper caste men who usually escape justice as survivors bow to pressure to drop their cases, researchers said this week. Only 10 per cent of 40 rape cases involving Dalit women and girls in Haryana state ended with the conviction […]
Anger in India after lower-caste woman’s body taken off funeral pyre
Lucknow, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation The body of a lower-caste Dalit woman was taken off a funeral pyre in India by a group of upper-caste men who said she could not be cremated on communal land, police said on Tuesday, a case that prompted angry calls for an end to caste discrimination. The funeral was being […]
Dalit killings in Nepal spark outrage over caste discrimination
Kathmandu, NepalThomson Reuters Foundation Ever since the death of a young Dalit man killed along with five friends in what activists called a “caste-based massacre”, Nepalis have been taking to streets to demand an end to a form of discrimination that remains rife years after it was outlawed. The protesters have not turned out in […]
INDIA: SURVIVOR TURNS CRUSADER AGAINST HONOUR KILLINGS
RINA CHANDRAN, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a 20-year-old Indian woman is leading the charge against honour killings in India…