Caste discrimination, violence against women and post-2015 development
I. Violence against Dalit women
A. Two strong statements by the High Commissioner in India
1. December 2012
2. January 2012
B. Keys problem
1. Police officials fail to register complants
a. Don’t investigate rape case
b. Re-tranmatize victims who approach them for help
2. One can not help to ark
a. Why did not these heinous crimes against Dalits provoke anger amongst the larger Indian public?
3. Crimes against Dalit women are often overlooked in the mainstream.
4. Dalit women and girls especially vulnerable groups of discrimeination and violence on the basis of gender and caste.
II. Caste inclusion in post-2015 development agenda and UN Guidance Note
A. Caste-based discrimination is explicitly addressed in the post-2015 agender as a root cause of poverty, inequalities and social exclusion of particularly marginalized groups.
B. The UN can promote multi-stakeholder cooperation between its Country Teams, governments, national institutions, and civil society in this regard.
III. HRC action on caste discrimination
A. Systematic exclusion that caste systems
B. Having in mimd the establishment of an independent monitoring mechanism