Dalit Manifesto

This is Humanist Manifesto and named Dalit Manifesto with the hope that young educated boys and girls who are victims of discrimination because of birth in particular family will like to adopt and implement it whenever History gives them chance to do so.

1.     All men are equal; men and women are equal. The gender inequality and caste inequality and subjugation of some castes and of women are the greatest crime against humanity. The enslavement of Blacks and dispossession of Red Indians are equally condemnable and so are the Nazi holocaust and dropping of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and attack on WTC. The riots, massacres and acts of terrorism all are condemnable.

2.     The human beings have no right to exploit and do brutality with animals and other living things and whenever used or consumed by human beings due care must be given to each such living things.

3.       The human beings have no right to exploit and pollute nature and natural resources and all such activities must be done with due care.

4.     The religions and atheism both are baseless; we need to be confined to what is KNOWABLE in this World and use our mind, reason and observations to find TRUTH and Good. No man, living or dead, is Divine and no book is Divine.

5.     The girls and women must have full freedom to choose their life partner because they seek love and may look beyond community, caste and race and may be instrumental in mothering a new World.

6.     There must be Uniform Civil Code and religion must be confined within four walls of home.

7.     The education must be universal and uniform and no place for orthodoxy and brain washing.

8.     No place for any decrees by khaps or fatwas – all these to be banned.

9.     All of us must have new names in form of one’s name, one’s mother’s name and one’s father’s name. There should be no place for caste name.

10.                        No long lasting change can be brought by use of force and violence as is evident from history of religions and Communism. The Enlightenment is the only way.

11.                        The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 must be implemented in its letter and spirit.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 (www.un.org )

Article 1   All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in spirit of brotherhood.                                                                                                                                         

Article 2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.                                                                                                  Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.                                                                                                                                               Article 3   Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.

Article 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.                                                                                                                                             Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.                                                                                                                                           

 Article 6   Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.                                                                                                                       

 Article 7 All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement                                                                                                                          Article 8  Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribulations for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.                                                                                                     Article 9 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.         Article 10   Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charges against him.                                             

Article 11   1 Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. 2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.                                                          

   Article 12 No one shall be subject to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.                                                                                                                  

Article 13               1 everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.                                             

  Article 14   1 everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.2. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.                                   

Article 15    1 everyone has the right to a nationality.2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.                                                                                                                    Article 16     1 Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.                                

 Article 17     1 everyone has right to own property alone as well as in association with others.2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.            

Article 18 Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion ; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.         

Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression ; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.                                                                                                                 

Article 20   1 everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.2. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.                        Article 21   1 everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. 3. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.              

Article 22   Everyone as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.                                                                                  

Article 23   1 everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary by other means of social protection.4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.                                                                                                                        Article 24 everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.                                     

Article 25   1 Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.                                                                                                                           

 Article 26   1 everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of United Nations for the maintenance of peace.3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.                             

Article 27   1 everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.                                                                                                                 

Article 28   Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.               

Article 29   1 everyone has duties to the communit1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. 2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.                                                                                                         

Article 30 nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.