To strengthen Dalit movement through knowledge production in collaboration
Dignity has been a long cherishing dream for Dalits. Having survived the pains of poverty under the woes of untouchability for centuries, Dalits know what the value of dignity is. Quest for dignity for them is a dream for prosperity and an appeal for humanity; it is a battle for equity and a claim for identity and existence.
As the twenty-first century is growing with the globalization injecting the ideas of human rights and linking the fellow-human beings from around the globe, the ideas of co-existence have also received prominence. While nearly seven decades have passed ever since the United Nations declared universal human rights recognizing equality of people, a vociferous social movement for these rights is relatively new; no doubt globalization has an instrumental role for these movements. Employing the global forums (such as World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance that held in Durban in 2001), social activists beyond the borders are advocating for human dignity. Discriminations either they are based in caste or creed or gender and geography are deemed as violation of human rights. Indeed, human rights and human have become a prime agenda of development. Human development is both locus and focus of development these days that aims at combating inequality, poverty, illiteracy and illness hence to promote capability of an individual to lead a life that he or she has a reason to value.
