End discrimination against Dalits

Demand speakers

22 November 2011, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

Speakers at a seminar yesterday demanded that the government formulate laws for combating discrimination against the Dalit community. They said India and Nepal already had such laws and Bangladesh needed to follow suit and enact similar laws in the country. The views came at the seminar on 'Realisation of Rights of Dalit and Socially Excluded People of Bangladesh' organised by Bangladesh Dalit and Excluded Rights Movement (BDERM) and Nagorik Udyog at the conference room of Business Studies faculty of Dhaka University (DU). BDERM President Mukul Sikder chaired the programme while Farzana Islam, teacher of DU, Dalit activist from Nepal Ram Lakkhan Chamar, and Bangladesh Dalit Nari Forum President Mani Rani Das spoke at the seminar. The seminar was held as a part of the five-day South Asia Social Forum programmes that ended on the DU campus yesterday.