Press clippings: UNHCHR opinion piece

Opinion piece by the High Commissioner

On 8 October the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, issued an opinion piece: "Tearing down the wall of caste"

Media reporting following the opinion piece

Following Navi Pillay’s opinion article, Human Rights Watch, NCDHR and IDSN issued a joint press release calling for an end to caste discrimination. The press release was published by many different media outlets.

Indo-Asian News Service article: End caste discrimination, says rights body

United News of India (UNI) article: UN top official calls for tearing down the Wall of caste

Another article – UN’s Navi Pillay Takes On Caste Discrimination on News junkie post (12 Oct)

HRW/NCDHE/IDSN press release: Time to tear down the wall of caste

Reuters AlertNet (9 Oct) - (AlertNet posts HRW press releases)
Indymedia Letzebuerg (10 Oct)
Media for Freedom (11 Oct)
Indybay (11 Oct)
Bernama (Malaysian National News Agency) (10 Oct)
Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka (12 Oct) and
Time to tear down the wall of caste system in South Asian Countries (same article on jpg-file)
South Asians for Human Rights
U-landsnyt.dk (16 Oct)

“Tearing Down the Wall of Caste” - Navi Pillay’s opinion piece published
on ModernGhana.com (7 Oct)

and in: Today's Zaman (8 Oct)

The Hindustan Times was the first major Indian newspaper to publish the article - under a different headline: Just another kind of bigotry (13 Oct)

The Huffington Post (a major US news site) followed (14 Oct). Ms Pillay blogs on this site regularly - other bloggers are Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Robert Redford.

Comments/opinion pieces:

Deccan Chronicle (9 Oct):
UN’s caste charter is a boon, not liability

The Pioneer (12 Oct): Shedding the social baggage

Tehelka (15 Oct): UN Anti-Caste Charter: Annihilation of Caste

Times of India article

On 15 October, the Times of India reported from the Human Rights Watch board meeting in India and included quotes from Ms Pillay's statement:

Recognize caste as discrimination: US rights body (15 Oct)

Article in The Nation

On 26 October, the US weekly The Nation published an interview with Navi Pillay, written by its UN correspondent, Barbara Crossette:

Putting Caste on Notice (26 Oct)