Most of the Dalits in the rural areas of Bangladesh are landless and live in houses built with straw and mud under a threat of eviction.
Since 1950, the country has enacted many laws and social initiatives to protect and improve the socio-economic conditions of its Dalit population.
[5] Amnesty International documented a high number of sexual assaults against Dalit women, which were often committed by landlords, upper-caste villagers, and policemen, according to a study published in 2001.
[17] The Carnegie Enowment researchers pointed out that the study used a non-representative snowball sampling method to identify participants, which might have skewed the results in favour of those with strong views about caste.
[19] The campaign was spearheaded by Prem Pariyar, a Nepali origin Dalit student, who came to the US in 2015 escaping persecution in his home country, and claimed that he faced discrimination in the US as well.
The resolution cited the survey by Equality Labs where 25 percent of Dalits reported having faced verbal or physical assaults.