A Voice For the Voiceless
The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.
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Caste-based discrimination runs deep in Nepal. Dalit are systematically denied access to basic services; prevented from exercising basic rights, like marriage and religion; and denied an equal opportunity to earn a living. Dalit also seek greater political participation. Finally, Dalit struggle to gain access to the media, which is a powerful tool for social change.
This campaign will expose several different practices which perpetuate and cause caste. They include bonded labour; religion; political participation; and education. The first issue (January 2009) looks at the threat to Intercaste marriage.
From the first issue – 46 years of Rejection
"I am seventy years old and still not allowed to enter my relatives' place and touch the food” – Megnath Sharma, a non-Dalit from Baglung District who was forced to flee to India after his family refused to accept his marriage to Nanda Kumari Harijan, a Dalit woman, in 1962. Back
Profiles of Discrimination
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Caste-based discrimination runs deep in Nepal. Dalit are systematically denied access to basic services; prevented from exercising basic rights, like marriage and religion; and denied an equal opportunity to earn a living. Dalit also seek greater political participation. Finally, Dalit struggle to gain access to the media, which is a powerful tool for social change.
This campaign will expose several different practices which perpetuate and cause caste. They include bonded labour; religion; political participation; and education. The first issue (January 2009) looks at the threat to Intercaste marriage.
From the first issue – 46 years of Rejection
"I am seventy years old and still not allowed to enter my relatives' place and touch the food” – Megnath Sharma, a non-Dalit from Baglung District who was forced to flee to India after his family refused to accept his marriage to Nanda Kumari Harijan, a Dalit woman, in 1962. Back