China, the world's manufacturing powerhouse and a socialist state governed by a communist party, is being accused online of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

Two bills that sought to add caste as a protected category under New York's anti-discrimination laws failed to advance this ...

Can the law deny protection against caste-based discrimination simply because an individual has changed religion?

More often, Islam’s egalitarian principles are invoked by Muslims to avoid deeper engagement with the question of caste ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

(RNS) — As more institutions adopt policies against caste discrimination, disagreements about caste's prevalence among those in the Hindu diaspora are stronger than ever. (RNS) — Nearly a decade ago, ...

Periodic caste deprivation audits, based on census data, should trigger mandatory sub-categorisation reviews every decade, with independent assessment of whether the communities most in need are ...

A critical analysis of the Karnataka High Court's SC/ST Act ruling and how judicial interpretations of "public view" can undermine justice for victims of caste-based discrimination and abuse.

Two New York bills that sought to add caste as a protected category under the state's Human Rights Law failed to advance ...