News and Events
Voicing out for options to restore reduced UK aid budget: DSN UK networks with BOND as a member
17th April 2025
DSN UK through BOND joined hands with refugee groups to call on the government to end the use of expensive contracts for housing asylum seekers in favour of more appropriate and cost-effective housing options and ensure that the freed-up funding is restored to the now reduced UK aid budget With a strong support from 107 organisations that signed on, Bond's Media Adviser secured coverage in The Times, BBC Breakfast and BBC News, LBC Radio (@08:06:00), LBC News, Times Radio, and Politico, and we have tweeted and shared via LinkedIn.
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Pro Casteism Brahmins’ Protest delays the Bollywood film on anti-caste Icons
17th April 2025
Jyotirao Phule, popularly known as Jyotiba Phule was born on 11th April April 1827 and passed away on 28th November 1890, was an Indian social activist, businessman, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. It was he who coined the term Dalit in the 19th century. This is the only identity chosen and accepted by DALITS to represent their status and their quest for liberation. Savitribai Phule his wife was also the first woman activist who opened up education for Dalits especially women and the first woman teacher in India. It is the Bollywood film on this great couple that [..]
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Dalit Theology Month
31st March 2025
Inspired by Black History Month, Dalit History Month was launched in April 2015 by a collective of Dalit activists, to reclaim and reassert the agency of Dalits through their stories of resistance and resilience. It is celebrated in the month of April every year commemorating the birth anniversary of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (14th April), a social reformer and a prophet for justice in modern India, who vehemently strived for the annihilation of caste oppression. In resonance with the spirit of Dalit History Month, #DalitTheologyMonth is being launched this April 2025 to reclaim our Dalit theological Identity, to reinvigorate our [..]
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Time to outlaw caste discrimination – MP
7th March 2025
The DSN-UK stands in solidarity, support and deep appreciation with Warinder Singh Juss, MP of Wolverhampton West for highlighting the importance of liberation from Caste discrimination. As we share this BBC news below, we would like to highlight the fact that this issue has been spoken of as important and laws passed to abolish caste discrimination more than a decade ago, tells us three things: That the issue was considered urgent enough to introduce a law That caste discrimination persists in insidious ways, and it requires more than a law to abolish caste How many generations have to change before [..]
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