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Martin Macwan: Amidst endless filth

By Anil Saari Arora

Thousands of manual scavengers headload human excrement and clean dry latrines across the state of Gujarat, even though the practice has been banned. Martin Macwan, a Dalit activist and lawyer who set up the Navsarjan Trust, has been working against this dehumanising practice in 2,000 villages. His work against the hidden apartheid against Dalits has won him the Kennedy Human Rights Award for 2000 and the 2001 International Activist Award. More...

 

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