WHAT DOES TRADE HAVE TO DO WITH ANY SOCIAL REFORM IN ANY COUNTRY?
How come this buzz word 'caste-based discrimination' has become the favorite pastime for some in European Parliament and also in HAF, the outfit which has lost its credentials to speak for Hindu Americans?
The buzz word is the favorite also of Dominus Jesus operatives who want to save souls.
Aha, do these bleeding hearts, including some moneybags, really want to save Hindu souls?
Kalyanaraman
Joint Hearing
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Committee on Development
Delegation for relations with India
Delegation for relations with South Asia
on
Caste-based discrimination in South Asia
28 February 2011
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/droi/dv/201/201102/20110228_500progrcaste_en.pdf
EU hearing highlights caste discrimination in South Asia
Brussels, 28th February 2011
A hearing in the European Parliament this evening co-chaired by Nirj Deva MEP, vice-President of the development committee, has heard about the still prolific level of caste-based discrimination that occurs in South Asia - affecting approximately 260 million people worldwide.
In India alone, 165 million people remain vulnerable to discrimination, exploitation, and violence because of the caste. In South Asia, caste discrimination is rooted in tradition. Supported by philosophical elements, the caste system constructs the moral, social and legal foundations of the society. Dalits are ‘outcastes’ or people who fall outside the four-fold caste system consisting of the Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vysya and Sudra.
As in India, it is often outlawed by the Constitutions of the countries affected by it, but a lack of implementation of legislation and caste-bias within the social systems largely leave Dalits without protection .
Following the hearing Mr Deva, from the European Conservatives and Reformists group, condemned:
- the inclusion of caste assignment on birth certificates of newborn children;
- the practice of manual scavenging (affecting 1.3 million Dalits in India) which is often the sole economic opportunity for Dalit women who earn less than a dollar a day collecting and transporting untreated waste to dumping sites - a huge public health risk;
- the failure of authorities to implement legislation to protect the rights the rights of Dalits;
- the persistent abuse against Dalit men and women, and particularly increasing levels of rape.
Mr Deva, whose wife Indra is Chairman of Hope for Children Belgium - which works to fight diarrhoeal diseases in the developing world - called on the Indian government and other governments in the region to remove the caste designation from birth certificates and to properly implement and strengthen legislation regarding caste-based discrimination. They also called on the authorities to provide adequate infrastructure for removing waste so that the children no longer face this major public health threat. They also called on the EU and UN to put in place a coherent and comprehensive action plan to ensure that the above is delivered, and for any Free Trade Agreement between the EU and India to include clear provisions for robust and strongly enforced legislation to end all caste discrimination, starting with birth certificate identification.
Mr Deva said:
"I have witnessed myself a senior representative of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka washing the pavement in front of his house every time a Dalit walked by. We have to understand that this issue is deeply rooted in their mentality and religious structure.
"The designation of the inherited caste on the birth certificate is the starting point of all subsequent segregation, abuse and violence against them. This form of contemporary slavery is unacceptable in the world we live in."
http://www.ecrgroup.eu/eu-hearing-highlights-caste-discrimination-in-south-asia-news-273.html
What a bizarre coincidence that HAF should be using a similar title for its HAF-baked report? Maybe, HAF guys should get a lesson from the pundit, Nirj Deva and even include a ringing endorsement from him for the bogus report.
WHAT DOES TRADE HAVE TO DO WITH ANY SOCIAL REFORM IN ANY COUNTRY?
Caste hearings in EU - exactly as examined in "Breaking India"Wednesday, March 9, 2011 6:33 AM
My friend, Chandramouli in Belgium, sends me the above. data relating to the discussionn in Breaking India. Right now, in and around the European parliament, the "caste warriors" are in full battle cry. It is not just a coincidence that the EU-India Free Trade Agreement is on the cusp of being realized with the EU trying to secure as much leg room as possible. Above is a brief article followed by a poster being spread widely for this campaign.(Poster cannot be copied entirely for this blog)
Rajiv Malhotra
WHAT DOES TRADE HAVE TO DO WITH SOCIAL REFORM IN ANY COUNTRY?
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