Investment Banker and Award Winning Writer talks of Caste Slavery in South Asia

08Mar13

SIDDHARTH KARA is a former investment banker turned award-winning author and an expert on forced labour. He holds a dual appointment at Harvard University’s FXB Centre for Health and Human Rights and at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. His new book, “Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia”, is the […]

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UK : Upper House votes out Caste

07Mar13

The House of Lords in the UK has voted to outlaw caste discrimination among South Asians, a move hailed by activists as a major step in combating the social menace. Discrimination on the grounds of caste should be outlawed in the UK, peers said as they defeated the government in a vote in the upper […]

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