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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have explicitly banned caste discrimination in the state.

Gov. Gavin Newsom called the bill “unnecessary,” explaining that California “already prohibits discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, ancestry,...

After a year of mobilization and a month-long hunger strike, California’s caste discrimination bill was vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Seattle and Fresno passed similar bans on caste discrimination in recent months

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have explicitly banned caste discrimination in the state.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have explicitly banned caste discrimination in the state.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have made California the first U.S. state to outlaw caste-based discrimination.

The decision, highly watched by the South Asian community, came on day 33 of a hunger strike by Dalit activists backing the civil rights legislation.

The governor said that the bill was “unnecessary” and that caste discrimination is already prohibited under the state’s existing civil rights protections.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have made California the first state in the nation to outlaw discrimination based on caste.