Ambedkar International Center
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Ambedkar International Center (abbr. AIC) is a civil rights advocacy group that was formed in 2012 to fight against caste discrimination in the United States. The organization's mission is to strengthen unity among scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs) and other backward classes (OBCs) living in the United States of America.[1] The organisation is named after the Indian social activist and caste reformer, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.[1][2]
This article contains close paraphrasing of a non-free copyrighted source, https://ambedkarinternationalcenter.org/who-are-we/ (Copyvios report). (November 2021) |
Caste is a birth based hierarchical system wherein people are divided into many endogamous groups doing hereditary occupation.[3][4] As Yashica Dutta writes in the New York Times, Dalit, meaning oppressed, is a self-chosen identity for a quarter of India’s population who have been at the receiving end of centuries old systematic and institutionalised discrimination and disenfranchisement.[5]
Named after | Babasaheb Ambedkar |
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Formation | June 2012 |
Type | Nonprofit |
Purpose | "Establish intellectual, moral, and social democracy elements in every section of the Indian society, prevent and curb the plight of caste-based human rights violations to build a fairer, more egalitarian society based on the principles and philosophy of Dr. Ambedkar."[6] |
Headquarters | Accokeek, Maryland 20607 USA [6] |
President | Sanjay Kumar [7] |
Vice President | Rakesh G [7] |
Website | https://ambedkarinternationalcenter.org |