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Kiruba Munusamy is a human rights lawyer and Dalit activist. She works on caste discrimination and gender violence cases.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She is practising in the Supreme Court of India. She is the founder-executive director of Legal Initiative for Equality.[7]

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  1. "The Fatal Gang Rape of a Young Woman Is Forcing a Reckoning in India Over the Caste System". Time Magazine. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. "Dalit Lives Matter: 8 Dalit Women Activists You Must Know About". Geetika Sachdev. Yahoo. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  3. "'Our bodies as sites of violence': In conversation with legal experts Kiruba Munusamy and Saumya Uma". Scroll. 11 October 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. K S. Chalam (6 July 2020). Political Economy of Caste in India. SAGE Publishing India. pp. 140–. ISBN 978-93-5388-409-3. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. "Kiruba, fighting caste cruelties in India The story of Kiruba Munusamy, human rights lawyer and Dalit women activist from India". Justice and Peace. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. "The Ghost Of Manu". Kiruba Munusamy. Outlook. 19 October 2020. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  7. "The nauseating nepotism and caste-based discrimination that exists in Indian judiciary". Kiruba Munusamy. ThePrint. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2020.