Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brown University has become the first Ivy League school to explicitly ban caste discrimination throughout its campus. The ...

Two bills that sought to add caste as a protected category under New York's anti-discrimination laws failed to advance this ...

California has moved one step closer to banning caste discrimination in the state. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some South Asians, many miles away from their homes, say they are suffering from experiences with discrimination that dates back ...

Can the law deny protection against caste-based discrimination simply because an individual has changed religion?

Supporters of the bill say caste discrimination is no different from other forms of discrimination and should be outlawed.

(RNS) — The politics around California’s recently proposed legislation banning caste-based discrimination have become contentious. They shouldn’t be. Caste discrimination remains one of the least ...

California may become the first state in the nation to outlaw caste-based bias, a safeguard people of South Asian descent say is necessary to protect them from discrimination in housing, education and ...

In recent weeks, there have been efforts to outlaw what's known as "caste discrimination" in the U.S. Seattle became the first city to ban caste discrimination in February. Now California may add ...

California lawmakers have cleared a bill that would explicitly ban caste discrimination in the state, sending it to the governor’s desk for signature. State senators passed a bill on Tuesday that ...