human-rights – Globalistan http://globalistan.org Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:29:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 ‘The Dalits of Europe’ http://globalistan.org/the-dalits-of-europe/ http://globalistan.org/the-dalits-of-europe/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:29:31 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=183 While reading Pardeep Singh Attri’s account of his experiences as a Dalit activist traveling in Hungary in the brilliant Insight Young Voices blog, I was struck by the similarity of the plight of Hungarian Romas and the Dalits ( regarded as Untouchables) in India. Both groups are victims of deep and persisting discriminations arising from […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/the-dalits-of-europe/feed/ 3 “I loved him…once the World Trade Center came down, I changed my mind” http://globalistan.org/racism-under-the-covers/ http://globalistan.org/racism-under-the-covers/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:21:51 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=61 This week two stories related to racist discrimination caught my eye. The first of these is from Dresden, not too far from a our beloved Leipzig, within a region that has been host to a spate of racist attacks. It was while Marwa el-Sherbini was in the dock recalling how the accused had insulted her […]

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