Reviewing Amnesty’s report on Dalits

Caste is so sacred for many Nepalis that they would rather go to jail or die than flout caste rules.

“It [Nepal] must move away from merely paying lip service to the ideals of achieving equality for all but take a concrete human rights-centric approach to relegating descent-based discrimination to the dustbins of history.” These are the powerful words of Fernanda Doz Costa, Amnesty International’s director of the gender and racial discrimination programme, at the launch of Amnesty International Nepal’s report on Dalits on May 10, 2024. Researched in 2023, the