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Lawsuit Claims California State University's Anti-Discrimination Policy Targets Hindus by Including ‘Caste’ as Protected Category

The Hindu American Foundation and Fox Rothschild filed a civil rights lawsuit Monday against the chancellor and trustees of California State University in the California Central District Court. In 2022, the California State University system passed a resolution to add caste as a category of discrimination in order to ensure that students and faculty report anti-Dalit bias. The move by …

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‘Watershed’: Dalits hail US university’s caste discrimination ban

Activists behind the move by the California State University system say it will accelerate the civil rights movement for caste equity in the US. Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit American activist and executive director of Equality Labs civil rights organisation, considers the addition of caste protections at CSU systems a “watershed moment” for the community. “We respectfully disagree with the position …

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, …

A three-day conference on Hindus and Hindutva co- The sponsors include top-tier universities such as Columbia University, Emory University, Harvard University, New York University, Rutgers University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago and the University of California in Berkeley, San Diego and Santa Cruz. The ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ event is set to see the participation of several Hinudphobic elements such …