They are denied access to land and are forced to work in degrading conditions.
Women are frequent victims of sexual abuse, and children are made to sit in the back of classrooms.
Dalit survivors of a massacre in Bihar. To prepare the recommendations of her report and an advocacy strategy, she convened a series of meetings with forty activists from eight Indian states. The meetings launched a national campaign of grassroots organizations working together to protect Dalit rights. Its aim is to hold the Indian government accountable for its failure to genuinely abolish untouchability and to press the government to prevent and prosecute widespread human rights abuses against Dalits. The Dalit campaign has reached far and wide throughout India.