KATHMANDU, May 23: This year’s Darnal Award for Social Justice (DASJ) 2022 will be awarded to Karnali Arts Centre (KAC), a community-based arts organization from Nepal and Equality Labs (EL), a U.S.-based Dalit civil rights organization. The co-awardees will be presented with the award along with NPR 250,000 each at the third biennial international award ceremony in City Hall, Kathmandu, on June 8, 2022.
According to a statement issued by the organizers, the Darnal Award Selection Committee has also decided to recognize two dynamic Dalit artists and social justice activists as the 2022 DASJ Honorees - writer and journalist Dhruba Satya Pariyar and anti-human trafficking activist Karuna Trikhatri.
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Similarly, On June 7, 2022, DASJ will also convene its corresponding biennial symposium “Politics of Dignity and Equity: Dalits in Nepal” in collaboration with the Central Department of Sociology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, The NewSchool, New York and the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS), New Delhi.
