Resolution Number: 2000-D024
Title: Call on the US to Condemn All Forms of Caste-Based Discrimination
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That The Episcopal Church call upon the government of the United States to pressure the government of India through the United Nations to recognize untouchability as a crime against humanity, abolish practices of untouchability, and allow for the inclusion of caste-based discrimination on the agenda of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, 2001.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 491.

Legislative History

Author:
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on National and International Concerns

House of Bishops

Original Text of Resolution:

(D024)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That The Episcopal Church call upon the government of the United States to pressure the government of India through the United Nations to recognize untouchability as a crime against humanity, abolish practices of untouchability, implement the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of) Atrocities Act, 1989, and allow for the inclusion of caste-based discrimination into the agenda of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, 2001.

Committee Amendment:

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That The Episcopal Church call upon the government of the United States to pressure the government of India through the United Nations to recognize untouchability as a crime against humanity, abolish practices of untouchability, implement the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of) Atrocities Act, 1989, and allow for the inclusion of caste-based discrimination into on the agenda of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, 2001.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted with amendment

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #67)

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on National and International Concerns presented its Report #21 on HB Message #67 on Resolution D024 ("Untouchability" Is a Crime Against Humanity) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #101)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 10.

Abstract:   The 73rd General Convention calls upon the U.S. government to condemn all forms of "untouchability" and caste-based discrimination.