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Dalit, tribal women among worst victims of India's hunger crisis
While more than 60 percent of Indian women are anaemic as they eat last and the least, rising hunger levels hit the marginalised most.
Suchitra http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/13/india-dalit-tribal-women-malnutrition-hunger-crists-pandemic
Date Written: 13/10/2021
Year Published: 2021
Resource Type: Article
In 2020, India's COVID-19 lockdown resulted in a tremendous collapse of livelihoods, causing an epidemic that India has been trying to fight off for decades: hunger.
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Beena Pallical from the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights says most marginalised women were pushed back into work that put them in unsafe spaces and made them susceptible to catch the virus.
But they had to do the work because the system works against them, she said.
"Dalit and Adivasi women die younger than dominant-caste women, and nutrition and health have always been a struggle for Dalit-Adivasi women. You throw in the livelihood crisis and the hunger crisis during the pandemic, and the effects suffered by marginalised women would be manifold."
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