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| Dalit women at the Action/Dalit Women 2015 event |
Women
in India’s Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Jharkhand areas have
committed to be on the forefront of the Action 2015 campaign.
According to Ashok Bharti, the National Movement of Dalit Women partnered with the National
Confederation of Dalit Organisations to launch the Dalit Women mobilization
Action 2015 campaign on the
International Rural Women’s Day in India on 15th October 2014.
Bharti who is the Chairman of the National
Confederation of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), says Dalit women expressed
determination to mobilize hundreds of thousand women across the country
to amplify the voice of socially excluded women both locally and globally.
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Dalit Women face Exclusion, Public Discrimination and Humiliation in accessing
dignified life, to legal redress to claim what is theirs in principle, to equal
wages, to decision- making process, and to benefits from government initiated
programmes targeted at their welfare.
Mr Ashok Bharti, who also chairs the International
Commission for Dalit Rights (ICDR) notes in a report generated after the mid
October event that in 2011, the literacy rate among
Dalit rural women (aged 15 and above) was 52.6 percent, compared with 64.6
percent for non- SC/ST women.
He
adds that the health condition of Dalit Women is alarming with high incidence
of maternal mortality and infant mortality, pointing out that the sex ratio of
Dalit Women is 922/1000 compared to 927/ 1000 for rest of the population in
India.
“The violation of the Human Rights of the
Dalit Women takes extremely demeaning and deplorable forms. Stripping, naked
parading, accused of witch craft and black magic, caste abuses, sexual slavery
and bondage are some of the few forms that are often employed in the violence
against Dalit Women.” Ashok Bharti
Over
500 women led by Ms. Sumedha Bodh, General Secretary of Rashtriya Dalit Mahila
Anodlan converged for the Dalit Women 2015 event in India.
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