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Article: Caste system is racial discrimination: UN rights panel.
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- Economic Times (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2007
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Byline: Sheila Mathrani
Mar. 30--GENEVA -- UN Human Rights Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has controverted India's stand at its recent Geneva hearings that the caste system is not racial discrimination based on descent.
In its concluding observations, CERD, which consists of reputed international experts in international law, academics, sociologists and diplomacy, arrived at the conclusion that India's denial is not correct, and that there is alarming discrimination in practice against Dalits and Scheduled Tribes, as well as minorities who have converted from Hinduism to Christianity or Islam to avoid discrimination.
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