"Overcoming racism compels us to address public policies and private attitudes that perpetuate it." Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the occasion of the 2011 International Day ...

Police have arrested almost three dozen people in connection with the Soti killings Nepal abolished the caste system in 1963 UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, also condemned ...

I could still be that 5-year-old boy looking out the window that was made up of bamboo sticks. As I would stare out at the dark sky, I had dreams in my eyes, wanting to fly high. But as soon as I ...

Despite a legal ban on caste-based discrimination, experts say that prejudice is still rampant in Nepalese society. Two fatal attacks on members of the lowest Dalit caste have sparked a new wave of ...

KATHMANDU, June 17 (Thomson 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 ...

It’s been more than a decade since Nepal transformed from a Hindu monarchy to a federal republic, but Dalits, who are at the bottom of its stratified caste system, remain the poorest of the poor. They ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Chitrakar families in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu were renowned traditional painters and sculptors who depicted gods and goddesses on temples, masks of Hindu deities and ...