California governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill passed recently by state lawmakers to explicitly ban caste discrimination, citing that exiting laws already prohibited ancestry discrimination, which made the bill 'unnecessary.'
passed recently by state lawmakers to explicitly ban caste discrimination, citing that exiting laws already prohibited ancestry discrimination, which made the bill "unnecessary."
Newsom's veto marked a rare but consequential setback in the movement against caste discrimination that had picked up momentum this year in North America. Had the bill been signed into law, California would have become the first U.S. state to explicitly ban caste discrimination. The issue is important to the South Asian diaspora, particularly the Indian and Hindu communities. The caste system is among the world's oldest forms of rigid social stratification.to recognize that caste discrimination existed in the city's schools and asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a framework to address the issue.Last year, California State University became the first U.S.
Kanishka Singh is a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Washington DC, who primarily covers US politics and national affairs in his current role.
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