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Seattle Bans Caste Discrimination: What That Means And Why The Movement Against Social Stratification Is Growing

Seattle City Council outlawed caste-based discrimination this week, a centuries-old form of social stratification with roots in South Asia, following years of activist organizing and similar bans at ...
CNN

Brown University bans caste discrimination throughout campus in a first for the Ivy League

Brown University now explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste, joining a number of US colleges and universities in shoring up protections against an ill-understood, insidious form of ...
Cfr.org

A California Bill Could Outlaw Caste Discrimination. Other States Should Follow Suit.

California could become the first state in the country to officially outlaw caste-based discrimination. If signed by Governor Gavin Newsom by October 14, the revolutionary Senate Bill (SB) No. 403 ...
CNN

Caste discrimination could soon be banned in California. But the effort has been contentious

California lawmakers have cleared a bill that would explicitly ban caste discrimination in the state, sending it to the governor’s desk for signature. State senators passed a bill on Tuesday that ...
The Daily Campus

Caste discrimination is still a problem

The caste system is a system in India which depicts the order of power that each person would have. Read more to find out the current state of the caste system in India. Photo by Artem ...
WBUR

Caste discrimination persists in the U.S. How are legislators addressing it?

The Indian government officially abolished the caste system in 1950. But discrimination persists across South Asia against Dalits, a group of people from historically oppressed caste communities. And ...
scmp.com

Caste discrimination is legal in Australia, home to more than 1 million South Asians. Some deny it even exists

When Vaibhav Gaikwad arrived in the Australian harbour city of Newcastle from India’s Mumbai in 2010, he found himself being invited to social gatherings by other members of the diaspora – at first.
BBC

Why the West is reckoning with caste bias now

The US states of Colorado and Michigan recently declared 14 April as Dr BR Ambedkar Equity Day. Days before that, Canada's British Columbia province also declared April as Dalit History Month.
Time

Caste Discrimination Exists in the U.S., Too—But a Movement to Outlaw It Is Growing

People walk in front of Wheeler Hall on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Calif., on March 11, 2020. People walk in front of Wheeler Hall on the University of California campus in ...

AI knows how caste works in India. Here’s why that’s a worry

When Usha Bansal and Pinki Ahirwar — two names that exist only in a research prompt — were presented to GPT-4 alongside a ...
Los Angeles Times

Even in the U.S. he couldn’t escape the label ‘untouchable’

SAN FRANCISCO — Prem Pariyar believed he had left caste oppression behind when he moved from Nepal to the United States. Here, he would no longer be targeted as an “untouchable.” But as a restaurant ...