The Hindu American Foundation has accused two big American media outlets -- The New York Times and Bloomberg -- of suppressing a study that reveals how Hindus face discrimination because of the caste-based diversity, equity, and inclusion training programmes in the US. The study was conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute in collaboration with Rutgers University and specifically examined …
A key California State government department has said caste and caste-based discrimination are not an essential part of Hinduism, and amended its 2020 complaint alleging discrimination at a Silicon Valley tech giant. According to a statement issued by the Hindu American Foundation on Tuesday, the California Civil Rights Department voluntarily filed a motion in the first week of December to …
On Saturday, Governor of California Gavin Newsom returned the discriminatory and Hindubphobic Bill ‘SB403’. Our statement:https://t.co/IZJCSvw854 — Hindu American Foundation October 7, 2023 In a statement, HAF’s Managing Director Samir Kalra said, “With the stroke of his pen, Governor Newsom has averted a civil rights and constitutional disaster that would have put a target on hundreds of thousands of Californians …
The story so far: The California Faculty Association this month added caste criteria into its anti-discrimination policies, a move that was subsequently ratified by the Board of Trustees of the California State University system. These include Harvard University, which became the first Ivy League university to recognise caste-based discrimination as an issue of concern, when it ratified, in December 2021, …