Biswendra Paswan is turning a Dalit hero for pressing Dalit demands in the parliamentary session of Consitution Assembly (CA), as he opposed the bill which has proposal to reduce the Dalit student quota for University admission from 15 to 9%.

Nepaldalitinfo International Network deplores the unwarranted action of government security forces seriously injuring the students protesting peacefully against the recent reduction in MBBS admission quota alloacated for Dalits from 15% to 9%.

Som 35 Dalit leaders from Nepal attended 24th Dalit Writers Conference in New Delhi. Khadga Bahadur Bashyal Sarki was honored with Dr.Ambedkar International Brotherhood Award during the conference organized by Bharatiya Dalit Sahitya Academy .

The Nepaldalitinfo International Network wishes all its members and friends of Dalits of Nepal a happy Holiday season and a happy, prosperous New Year 2009.

RDN, Nepal awards this year’s Tikaram Parki Manav Maryada Puraskar to Rima Nepal, a Dalit and women’s movement leader from Mid-western region of Nepal.

“The discrimination of Dalits in India and Nepal continues without any serious effort on the part of the governments to deal with the issue. “.Says Asian Human Right Watch

A joint meeting of Dalit students formed a united front called Samyukta Dalit Bidhyarthi Sangharsa Samiti and planned a sit-in program in front of the education ministry on December 16 (1st of Paush) to protest against the decrease in Dalit quota for MBBS studies.

Jagaran Media Center (JMC) is successfully completeing the first year of a community radio station Radio Jagaran 93.6 MHz at Butwal-Nepal. An event to celebrate the occasion is planned for 17 December 2008.

Nepaldalitinfo heartily congratulates JMC and Jagaran Radio 93.6 MHz for this significant milestone of achievement.

Making judiciary inclusive is the surest way to guarantee universal faith of all people in the venerated institutions of judiciary, and, therefore, to make judiciary independent by freeing it from feudal barriers.
- Bhakti Nepal

The international community has not lived up to the vision held in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the landmark document.
The problems of discrimination and Dalit youth unemployment in Nepal highlighted at an event on the occasion of Human Rights Day Celebration in Nepal. - Richard Bennett.
Nepal as a party of the Declaration must end discrimination based on caste and gender in practice for good. - Kedarnath Upadyay

Excerpts from Naya Patrika Daily, published on December 06, 2008.
The story is about the Dalan TV serial, which was producted by Jagaran Media Center and broadcast by Nepal TV.

गाविसले प्रत्येक वर्ष बनाउने योजना र बजेटबाट नाम मात्रको सहयोग प्राप्त हुने प्रचलनलाई अन्त्य गर्न पर्वत जिल्लाका विभिन्न गाविसका दलित समुदायले छलफल शुरु गरेका छन ।
- वीर वहादुर विश्वकर्मा

यदि साँच्चै हामीले सामाजिक न्यायसहितको समतामूलक र समावेशी नेपाल चाहेका हौं भने अब पशुपतिनाथ वा अन्त कतैको मन्दिरमा कुनै जात वा समुदाय विशेषको नेपालीले मात्रै होइन, मापदण्ड पुग्ने सबै समुदायको नेपालीले पुजारी हुन पाउनु पर्दछ। यदि उसँग त्यो काम गर्नको लागि योग्यता, क्षमता, शीप र कौशल छ भने किन नपाउने ? हो, अब मुसहर र सार्कीको छोरोमा पनि आवश्यक योग्यता भएमा र उचित मापदण्ड पुगेको खण्डमा ऊ पनि पुजारी हुन पाउनु पर्दछ।

हामीसंग शब्द प्रशस्त छन्, तर वहस र एकताको मात्र अभाव हो, सही कुरालाई पाचन गर्नसक्ने संस्कृतिको खँाचो छ। अतः बहस र एकता भए ‘दलित’को स्थानमा ‘ललित’ वा ‘पारखी’ वा ‘कौशल’ वा ‘सील्पी’ आदि राख्न सकिन्छ।

आगामी संविधानमा दलितका एजेण्डा

प्रस्तोताः हिरा विश्वकर्मा, तर्ीथ विश्वकर्मा
- दलितको समस्या दलितको मात्रै होइन, सम्पर्ूण्ा देशको समस्या हो ।
- दलितले विना अपराध र कसूर १९१० देखि सजाय पाउदै आएका हुन ।
- दलितले अव वन्ने संविधान मार्फ कमसेकम राहत नभए क्षतिपर्ूर्ति समेत प्राप्त गर्नु पर्दछ ।
- इतिहासको स्वणिर्म घडिको यो अवसरलाई सवैले दलितको इतिहास निर्माण गर्ने कार्यमा लगाउनु पर्दछ ।
- अहिले भएन भने कहिल्यै पनि हुने छैन ।

HOW TO DO JUSTICE TO DALITS IN NEW CONSTITUTION
A working paper presented by Hira Vishwakarma in an international conference on “Towards a New Constitution in Nepal”, organized jointly by Konard Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), Society for Peace Security and Development Studies (SPSDS), India and Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (NCCS).

Do Justice to Dalits in Nepal

Making judiciary inclusive is the surest way to guarantee universal faith of all people in the venerated institutions of judiciary, and, therefore, to make judiciary independent by freeing it from feudal barriers.
- Bhakti Nepal