Discrimination is the act of making distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong. Examples :- Women and “Untouchables”The divisive caste system – in OPERATION throughout India, “Old” and “New” – together with inequitable gender attitudes, sits at the HEART of the wide-ranging human rights abuses experienced by Dalit or “outcaste” women.“Discriminatory and cruel, INHUMAN, and degrading treatment of over 165 million people in India has been justified on the basis of caste,” according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).Caste refers to a traditional Hindu MODEL of social stratification, which defines people by descent and occupation. It is defined asa system of graded inequality in which castes are arranged according to an ascending scale of reverence, and a descending scale of contempt… i.e. as you go up the caste system, the POWER and status of a caste group increases and as you go down the scale the degree of contempt for the caste increases, as these castes have no power, are of low status, and are regarded as dirty and polluting.Hence the term “untouchable”.