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Releases from JMC

On these pages you will find e-bulletins and press releases from the Jagaran Media Center that are not available on its website.

Below you will find links to and contents of each of JMC's e-bulletins, which are available on its website.

E-bulletin: Issue #48
June 16, 2008

• Brahmin Man Forges Documents to Obtain Dalit Scholarship
• A Dalit Family Exiled from their Village
• A Dalit Woman Asking Back her Children
• Man Threatens to Kill Woman for Marrying a Dalit
• A Model Village Which Respects Badi Women

E-bulletin: Issue #47
June 2, 2008

• An Application of a Dalit Woman Rejected
• Compensation Given to a Dalit Woman
• Dalit Mothers and Children Making Bidi (Cigarette)

E-bulletin: Issue #46
May 19, 2008

• Dalit Student Deprived of Education
• Tradition Forced a Dalit Father and Son to Leave their House
• A Non-Dalit Priest Asked for Excuse in Public
• A Dalit Tailor Finds Hard to Sustain

E-bulletin: Issue #45
May 5, 2008

• Dalit Families Banned of Fetching Drinking Water
• Dalits Discriminated at a Marriage Feast
• Dalits and Freed Bonded Laborers Drinking Contaminated Water
• A Non-Dalit Man Thrashed an Aged Dalit Woman
• Indian Border Security Force Officers Beat Nepalese Dalit Women

E-bulletin: Issue #44
April 21, 2008

• Dalit Candidacy Nil in the Far Western Region
• Non Dalit Woman Asked Excuse to a Dalit Woman
• Dalit & Particularly Dalit Women are Being Discriminated in Wages

E-bulletin: Issue #43
March 31, 2008

• Collective Effort of Dalit Women Against Social Orthodoxy
• Election Campaign on Bicycle

E-bulletin: Issue # 42
March 17, 2008

• Dalits' Forced to Boycott with their Social Lives
• A Dalit Child Beaten for Touching Water
• Even DNA Certification didn't Grant a Citizenship Certificate to a Dalit
• Dalit Working as a Temple Priest
• A Dalit Priest with a Modest Motive

E-bulletin: Issue # 41
March 3, 2008

• A Dalit Youth Beaten
• Legal Mechanism not Supportive to Dalits
• Drunken Non-dalit Teacher Attacked a Dalit

E-bulletin: Issue #40
February 18, 2008

• Dalit Student Curtailed from Worshipping
• Teachers at School Discriminate Dalit Students
• No Cooking Utensils to Dalit Members

E-bulletin: Issue #39
February 4, 2008

• Non-Dalit Father Murders Own Child
• 13 Year Old Dalit Girl Raped
• Dalit Milkmen Face Boycott

E-bulletin: Issue #38
January 21, 2008

• Plot Against Dalit Failed
• Son Didn't Abide by Discriminating Social Rules, Police Arrests Father
• Compensation for Non-Dalits, no Compensation for Dalits
• Displaced and Forgotten

E-bulletin: Issue #37
January 7, 2008

• No Drinking Water to Dalits
• Dalits Getting Hard to Sell Milk
• A Dalit Woman Raped and Murdered at Saptari

E-bulletin: Issue #36
December 24, 2007

• Taps Without Water
• Dalits Houses on Fire
• Dalits Against Balighare System

E-bulletin: Issue #35
December 10, 2007

• A Dalit Woman Raped and Murdered
• Dalits Forbidden to Dine at Hotels
• Plight of Intercaste Marriage

E-bulletin: Issue #34
November 26, 2007

• Dalit Participant Raped
• Cordon at Chamar Settlement
• A Mysterious Death
• Some Highlights on Intercaste Marriage

E-bulletin: Issue #33
November 11, 2007

• Dalit Family Faces Continuous Abuse
• Maoists Thrash Dalits for Using Local Well
• False Accusations and Superstition Causes in the Death of a Dalit Girl
• The Jagaran Media Center Launches New Radio Station
• Part-time Work for Education
• Women Against Caste Based Discrimination

E-bulletin: Issue #32
October 29, 2007

• Dalits Thrashed When Denied Eating Buffaloes
• Dalits Entered Temple
• Dalits Entered Temple at Parvat
• No Distribution of Dalit Scholarships

E-bulletin: Issue #31
October 15, 2007

• Editorial: Government to Decide Fate of Badis
• Diarrhea Claimed Dalit Lives
• Dalits Threatened for Entering Temple
• A Challenge to Untouchability

E-bulletin: Issue # 30
September 24, 2007

• A Dalit Girl Beaten
• Member of Parliament Beat a Dalit Woman
• Exclusive Candidacy Recommendation

E-bulletin: Issue # 29
September 10, 2007

• Editorial: Reflections on Badi Movement
• Landslides and Sabotage Devastate Dalit Families in Hemja
• Modernization Becomes a Burden to Dalits of Palpa
• The Gandharbas of Nepal

E-bulletin: Issue # 28
August 27, 2007

• Hunger Strike for Dalit Demands
• Thrashing at Dalit Settlement
• A Dalit Harassed for Using Public Water Canal
• Inadequate Electricity at Dalit Settlement
• A Spontaneous, Artistic Endeavor

E-bulletin: Issue No. #27
August 6, 2007

• Editorial - Doom and the Destination of the Dalit Movement by Suvash Darnal
• Issue of the Month - Report from the National Dalit Assembly                   
• A Unified Initiation for Regaining Land
• Dalit Women Raped
• 13 Year Old Dalit Girl Raped
• An Ousted Dalit Woman Desires Further Study
• Victim of Conflict Appeals for Help
• A Temple Closed to Everyone
• Dalit Family Threatened for Refusing to Eat Animal Carcass
• Discrimination from Early Childhood 

E-bulletin: Issue # 25
December 18, 2006

• Dalit Children Died of Starvation in Arghakhanchi District
• Dalit Women Thrashed in Siraha District
• Dalit Abducted; Thrashed Demanding Money in Banke
• Problems of Dalit Still Getting more Complicated in Doti
• Dalit Children Abducted and Trafficked in Broad Daylight
  

E-bulletin: Issue # 24
September 24, 2006

• Doti Tensed After Dalits Entered Temple; Series of Attack from Hindu Extremists, 60 Dalits and 5 Police Injured
• Maoists Killed Dalit Youths
• Dalit Mistreated in a City Like Biratnagar
• Dalit Beaten for Disobeying Maoists Order
• 3 Killed and 2 Missing Due to Flood and Landslide in Chitwan, 4 Dalit Families Affected

E-bulletin: Issue # 23
September 6, 2006

• Maoists Kidnapped 4 Including 3 Dalit Children in Baglung
• Sardar Missing Since Last 9 Months After he was Taken by Maoists
• Women Demand Action Against Rapist in Sunsari
• Report on Corruption in Scholarship Made Public
• Dalits Deprived of Drinking Water in Baitadi
• Priest Mistreated Dalit Woman in Doti

E-bulletin: Issue # 22
August 21,2006

• Public Taps for so Called 'Upper Caste People' Throughout the Village, Dalits Forced to Fetch Drinking Water from River
• Dalit Women Trashed for Touching a Public Tap
• This is How so Called 'Upper Caste' People Seize Land from Helpless Dalits
• Discrimination Practiced in Front of Regional Administration Office
• Dalit Runs Republican Hotel

E-bulletin: Issue # 21
August 10, 2006

• Government Employees Discriminate Against Dalits
• Brahmins Forced to Drink from Dalit Water Source
• Haliyas on Hunger Strike
• Dalit Couple Commits Suicide
• Withheld Meter Keeps Dalits Away from Drinking Water Supply
• Rs 100,000 Compensation, Departmental Action for Torture
• 30 out of 35 Households are Haliyas

E-bulletin: Issue # 20
July 25, 2006

• Minor Raped, Culprit Escapes
• 21 dead, 9 Missing as Mudslide Destroys Village
• Dalit Woman Thrashed in Baglung
• Shaileswori Temple Still Pad-locked
• Dalit Attacked with Axe

E-bulletin: Issue # 19
July 11, 2006

• Disparity in Relief Money Provided to Family of Dalits' Killed at Kashmir, India
• After Being Raped, a Mute Dalit Girl Gives Birth to a Child
• Inhumane Act of a Teacher Upon an Innocent Student
• Dalit Woman Restricted at Water Sprout of District Headquarters

E-bulletin: Issue # 18
June 23, 2006

• Dalit Girl Raped
• Dalit’s Eye Damaged Mysteriously
• Community Pays Rs 2500 for Dalit Thrashing
• Discrimination Compels a Teacher to Quit Permanent Job
• Dalit home Demolished
• Misused Funds Returned

E-bulletin: Issue # 17
May 30, 2006

• Badi Women Beaten by Maoists
• Two Dozens of Dalits Affected by Rabies
• Dalit Students Compelled to Pay Fees Despite Government Facilities
• Alliance with Dalits
• Five Injured by Khukuri

E-bulletin: Issue # 16
May 17, 2006

• Scholarships Meant for Dalits Distributed to Non-Dalits
• Untouchaiblity Practices even at College Hostel
• Probe Committee to Curb Corruption at School
• Inter-caste Marriage Led to Social Exclusion
• Nationawide Co-feast Program Concludes

E-bulletin: Issue # 15
May 1, 2006

• Two Dalits Declared Martyrs in Peoples' Movement 2006
• Human Rights Activists & Journalists Threatened by Security Forces
• An Act of Sidelining Dalit
• Dalit Beaten for Asking for his Wages
• Is Walking by a Dalit an Offense?
• Parents Tormented as Son Absconds with his Spouse

E-bulletin: Issue # 14
March 21, 2006

• Dalit Student Thrown out of his Rented Room
• Police Refused to Register Rape Case
• One and Half Year Jail Term Accusing Maoist
• Dealers Refused to Buy Milk Produced by Dalit Family
• Demand for Equal Participation of Dalits in Education
• Consequences of Inter-caste Marriage
• Woes of a Dalit Woman After the Death of her Husband
• Dalit Girl Mistreated

E-bulletin: Issue # 13
March 6, 2006

• Dalits Barred from Drinking Water, Journalists and Human Rights Defenders Attacked
• Dalit Girl Saved Being Raped
• 70 Percent of Dalits in Saptari Have no Citizenship Certificates
• Dalit Thrown out from Rented House
• Dalit Students Urge to be Involved in the Democratic Movement
• JMC's Activist Arrested by Royal Nepal Army

E-bulletin: Issue # 12
February 21, 2006

• Mysterious Rape and Murder of an 8 Year Old Dalit Girl
• Dalit Family High and Dry After the Forces Killed Breadwinner
• Thousands of Students Affected After Revolutionary Students Locked Community Schools
• How Dalits are Being Displaced From Jobs...
• Rebuked for Touching Water in a Public Tap
• Brahmins Participate at the Furnace (Aaran) Improvement Training
• Liberated Haliyas Yet to Receive Compensation

E-bulletin: Issue # 11
February 7, 2006

• Dalit Women Injured by Police Firing Inside Her Room
• Mentally Challenged Man Under Chains Instead of Treatment
• Last Rites of a Dalit Woman Held Twice
• Human Rights Cell of Nepal Police will Help Protect and Promote Dalit Rights
• An Exemplary Inter-caste Marriage
• Dalit Women Assaulted, Mistreated

E-bulletin: Issue # 10
January 26, 2006

• 13 Year Old Dalit Girl Raped
• Teacher Exploited Dalit Girl
• Dramatic Abduction of a Dalit Girl
• Haliyas Ended Sit-in Protest After 24 Days
• Many of the Street Children are Dalits

E-bulletin: Issue # 9
January 10, 2006

• Scholarships Meant for Dalits Misused
• Human Excreta Fed to a Woman Accused of Being a Witch
• Doti Dalits Forced to go Stone Quarry
• Couple Ousted from Village for Inter-caste Marriage
• Principal Broke Teeth of Dalit Student
• Food Scarcity at Musahar Settlement

E-bulletin: Issue # 8
December 26, 2005

• Series of Rape of Dalit Women in Same District
• Dalit Tortured, Alledged Murder Case to Displace Him From the Village
• Dalits Penalized for Entering Temple
• Arrange Marriage Between Dalit and Non-Dalit
• Dalits' Land Merged in the Land of School

E-bulletin: Issue # 7
December 12, 2005

• Dalits of Kathmandu Still Barred From Drinking Water
• Hundreds Arrested on Int'l Human Rights Day
• Intercaste Marriage Leads to Social Exclusion
• Victimized Dalits Charged Rs. 60,000
  
• Absentee Dalit Student Restricted From School
• Haliya Freed

E-bulletin: Issue # 6
November 29, 2005

• Victims of Police Atrocity Yet to Get Justice
• Dalit Women Mistreated
• Temple Where Dalit Worshipped Consecrated
• Deepawali Celebration to End Intra-Dalit Discrimination

E-bulletin: Issue # 4
October 25, 2005

• Condolence
• Blockade Among Dalits for not Playing Drum During Dashai
• Dalits for Nationwide Movement Against Royal Takeover
• Stinking Carcass Thrown at Dalit Village
• Attack on Peaceful Programme of Dalits

E-bulletin: Issue # 3
September 26, 2005

• Teachers Responsible for Discrimination Within Classroom
• Rental Problems for Dalits and Ways for its Solution
• Chaudhary Threatens Dalits to Evacuate Land
  

E-bulletin: Issue # 2
September 19, 2005

• Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of Badi Women
• Separate Water Taps for Dalits and Non-Dalits in Doti 
• Rental Problem Among Dalit Tenants Serious
• Dalit Priest at Ram Janaki Temple 
• Pregnant Dalit Woman Forced to Live in a Buffalo-shed

E-bulletin: Issue # 1
September 12, 2005

• Welcome Note from Jagaran Media Center (JMC)
• Rape Case of Dalit Women in Saptari, More Rumour than Reality 
• 50 Internally Displaced Dalit Families Rehabilitated in Baglung
• Facts on Mahottari Fire Incident Revealed 

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