Riya Singh: Caste-based Sexual Violence Against Dalit Women

Riya Singh is a part of Core Leadership Group in India's single and largest Dalit women collective, Dalit Women Fight. She works on ground with the survivors of caste atrocities of Dalit community in five states of northern India. She is also a PhD scholar at Ambedkar University Delhi and her research focuses on atrocities and the Scheduled Castes - Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act

In this conversation, Riya shared her work and research on combating caste atrocities including sexual violence against Dalit women.

More info on Dalit Women Fight: https://dalitwomenfight.org/

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