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California Democratic state Sen. Aisha Wahab is seen in Sacramento, California, on March 22, 2023. Wahab's original bill calling for the ban of caste discrimination was amended following ...
California lawmakers on Tuesday voted to outlaw discrimination based on caste, adding protections for people of South Asian descent who say they have been left out of traditional American ...
California moved closer to becoming the first U.S. state to ban caste discrimination after a bill to outlaw the practise passed the California Assembly late on Monday. U.S. discrimination laws ban ...
In 2009, the Government of Nepal announced that it would give a sum of रू100,000 Nepalese rupees (roughly US$1,350 [10]) away to couples who have an inter-caste marriage. [11] The recipients would have to claim the sum within 30 days of the marriage. [ 11 ]
The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance [3] of the California Supreme Court's May 2008 appeal ruling, In re Marriage Cases, which followed the short-lived 2004 same-sex weddings controversy and found the previous ban on same-sex marriage (Proposition 22, 2000) unconstitutional. Proposition 8 was ultimately ruled ...
Due to many caste-based discriminations in Nepal, the government of Nepal legally abolished the caste-system and criminalized any caste-based discrimination, including "untouchability," in 1963. [8] Untouchability has been outlawed in India, Nepal and Pakistan. However, "untouchability" has not been legally defined.
A new bill introduced Wednesday in California’s state Senate could be a historic win in the fight against caste discrimination in the United States. California could become the 1st U.S. state to ...
Had the bill been signed into law, California would have become the first U.S. state to explicitly ban caste discrimination. The issue is important to the South Asian diaspora, particularly the ...