ABOUT US
Founded in 2020, Dalit Lives Matter Global Alliance (DLMGA) serves as vanguard of #DalitLivesMatter movement and implements intersectional framework-based programming anchored in inclusivity, participation, and a people-centered ethos.
Vision
VISION
A just, equitable, and multicultural society where inclusion, diversity, and dignity are not just ideals but fundamental principles upheld in every sphere of life, ensuring equal opportunities, rights and respect for all individuals, regardless of caste, ethnicity
or background.
Mission
MISSION
To initiate and amplify the efforts towards a just, equitable, inclusive, and diverse society by creating knowledge, strengthening leadership, supporting networks, building alliances, inspiring people, and celebrating multiculturalism to bridge the divides and achieve dignified lives.
Goal
GOALS
Eradicate caste discrimination, empower Dalit communities, ensure justice, promote inclusion, advance awareness, strengthen alliances, foster economic upliftment, document injustices, champion equity and inspire future leadership.or background.
WHAT DRIVES US
WHAT DRIVES US
EQUITY
DIGNITY
HUMANITY
IMPACT
COLLABORATION
We work to strengthen socially excluded communities by advancing justice, inclusive leadership, knowledge, collaboration, and people-centered narratives to amplify the collective resistance against systemic inequality, injustice and indignities.
OUR ASPIRATION
Strengthening the struggles and movements of socially excluded communities – Dalits, Indigenous, LGBTQI+, and marginalized groups
We will be strengthening the struggles and movements of Dalits, Indigenous people, LGBTQI+, and other excluded groups with our best abilities, scholarship, and commitment. We will highlight and address systemic injustice and human rights violations that the socially excluded face across the country and continents. Dalit Lives Matter Global Alliance will engage with multiple stakeholders to improve the delivery of justice – legal, economic, political, climate, and social, sustainable livelihood, human rights, equal dignity, and democracy to the socially excluded.
Promoting, Engaging, and Engendering inclusive leadership
We will continue to identify, promote, and engender leadership of diverse backgrounds to work as party-neutral* “agents of change” engaging with government and its institutions, corporate and market forces, civil society and its leadership, and socially excluded communities to strengthen democracy and social inclusion. We will work toward enhancing capacities, skills, networking, and mutually working to effectively organize, educate, and agitate for safeguarding democracy and promoting social inclusion.
Equipping stakeholders with the necessary knowledge, research, and documentation
We will create and continually update a robust database to steer data-driven, result-oriented, and evidence-backed interventions promoting our engagement with different stakeholders for inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism. We will develop a repository of policies, programs, institutional frameworks, and other resource materials, including artistic expression, and provide open access to this repository for the promotion of inclusion and diversity. We will undertake primary and secondary research to equip stakeholders with in-depth analysis and information to take informed actions augmenting their efforts and the movement for an inclusive society.
Engaging civil society, community-based organizations, and networks to bridge the divides
We will enhance capacities, bring diverse civil societies together, and intervene to promote mechanisms, campaigns, and interventions to bridge the divides – social, economic, cultural, legal, technological, and political. We will educate people, community-based organizations, and networks on the adverse impacts of divides between different sections of society. We will build and innovate with systemic structures – government and non-government, networks, mechanisms, and alliances to facilitate bridging the divides. We will actively support the organizations of the socially excluded to engage with multiple actors working towards bridging the divides.
Promoting people-centric narratives and initiatives through mediums of expression and creativity
We will promote people-centric counter-narratives by identifying and documenting the unheard stories of resistance and the untold tales of the inhumanities and give them wider publicity. We will organize training, dialogues, consultations, seminars, and other public events to effectively campaign, network, and build public opinion promising a shared future, inclusion, diversity, and peaceful coexistence. We will promote and celebrate the traditional knowledge, arts, and culture of resistance. We will preserve, archive, and promote traditional forms of music, artistic expression, and literature. We will help, support, and encourage new scholarship in art, culture, and literature.
Dalit Lives Matter Global Alliance empowers young people from Dalit and marginalized communities as Dignity Defenders, to challenge caste-based inequality and injustice through grassroots action.
DLMGA aligns grassroots struggles with national and global human rights frameworks, maintaining a focus on caste-based inequality and its intersectionality.
DIGNITY DEFENDERS
Dignity Defenders, as envisioned by DLMGA, are the next-generation leaders who at present invest their commitment and dedication to community organizing and building resistance against caste-based inequalities and indignities. Dignity Defenders empowered by the transfer of knowledge and skill on human rights advocacy, communications and coordination act as human rights defenders working with the community at the local level. DLMGA will also equip the Dignity Defenders with collaborators, connections, coalition and network to strengthen and amplify grassroots movement.
In 2024, 22 youth from marginalized communities became Dignity Defenders, leading 66 campaigns and engaging over 2,000 members in Kapilvastu and Dang. They received training on human rights, the justice system, and sustainable development, followed by mentorship.
In 2025, 20 youth from Dalit CSOs participated in leadership training to address systemic barriers, leading over 70 campaigns focused on climate justice and social inclusion. Over the next five years, DLMGA aims to cultivate more than 1,500 next-generation leaders as Dignity Defenders, championing the rights of Dalits, women, LGBTQI+ individuals, and other socially excluded groups in Nepal
our partners
DLMGA collaborates with local civil society organizations (CSOs) to ground its work in community realities, co-creating grassroots actions for advocacy. While strengthening local alliances, DLMGA also seeks to expand its global network for dignified lives.