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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 ]
After a year of mobilization and a month-long hunger strike, California’s caste discrimination bill was vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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 ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have made California the first U.S. state to outlaw caste-based discrimination. On Sept. 28, Fresno became the second U.S. city and the first in ...
Under the leadership of L.J. Carusone and Mark Levine, the Marriage Equality California Chapter was created.On February 14, 2000, at a protest in Beverly Hills, Marriage Equality California became one of the first marriage-equality organizations in the country to organize a "mass-marriage protest" at a city clerk's offices on Valentine's Day, a tradition that has continued every February and ...
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.
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill passed recently by the state legislature to explicitly ban caste discrimination, citing existing laws that already prohibit ancestry ...
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 ...