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face prejudice and violence as a result of their caste, both at employment and in K-12 school. In partnership with
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's office, Equality Labs and its partners arranged the first congressional briefing on caste discrimination in 2019. The purpose of the briefing was to educate politicians about the incidence and impact of caste discrimination in the United States, as well as to push for policies and legislation that address this issue. During the briefing, the panelists shed light on the ubiquitous nature of caste prejudice and the need for a better understanding of how caste functions among the South Asian diaspora in the United States throughout the briefing. Equality Labs has performed hate speech and misinformation research on Facebook India, discovering that Islamophobic content was the most prominent type of hate speech, followed by casteist hate speech, fake news, and gender/sexuality-related hate speech.
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testifying in support of an ordinance in
Seattle to ban caste-based discrimination and add caste as a protected category to the Seattle Equal Rights law. A similar bill introduced by Aisha Wahab based on the report by Equality Labs has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee to add caste as a protected
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America is affected by this issue. According to the report, a considerable number of Dalits (those who are deemed "untouchable" in the caste system)
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