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Dalit Women in Double Jeopardy

The hazards, which Dalit women in Nepal are subjected to, are double: one from the caste based socio-economic discrimination of occupational communities they belonged to, and another from the gender based discrimination in the prevailing patriarchal male dominated society. The ramifications of these hazards having direct impacts on their socio-economic and political conditions are even manifold, and have led to their general exclusion from the mainstream of the society they live in. Durga Sob, a noted Dalit woman activist, has even described the prevailing conditions as “the triple oppression” emphasizing the multiplicity of these ramifications occurring in the forms of untouchability, economic exploitation, illiteracy, low-life expectancy, political non-representation, sexual exploitation, slavery and so on.

This section bears a series of web-links as a collection of selected articles/information materials focusing on the prevailing conditions of Nepali Dalit women. Some of these materials may suggest possible ways out for them. It may be noted that some of the materials found through the links below are the first-hand information in the words of activists, who are either Dalit women themselves or women friends of Dalits.

To Be Free from Caste Discrimination- by Anita Pariyar