{"id":11097,"date":"2018-09-25T21:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=11097"},"modified":"2018-09-25T22:01:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:16:41","slug":"govt-positive-to-address-lgbti-issues-says-law-minister-dhakal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/govt-positive-to-address-lgbti-issues-says-law-minister-dhakal\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt positive to address LGBTI issues, says Law Minister Dhakal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal has said that debate has started about the formulation laws to legalize same-sex marriage. Minister Dhakal said failure to mention this issue in criminal and civil codes does not mean that same-sex marriage would never be legalized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addressing a National Consultative meeting of sexual and gender minority, Dhakal said that government is serious about legalizing same-sex marriage. \u201cI am not in favor or against the same-sex marriage, i take it as a part of regular law reforming process of society according to the needs of society,\u201d said Dhakal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister Dhakal underlined the need of continuous struggle while securing the achievements made so far. Minister fully assured that government stands in favor of the LGBTI community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMembers of this community are free to secure their rights and exercise the freedom,\u201d said Dhakal.\u00a0 Minister informed that new citizenship act which is currently in parliament has the provision of providing citizenship to this community as per their gender identity. \u201cGovernment is positive about the demands of this community and civil and criminal codes have not discriminated this community,\u201d Dhakal added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commissioner and Spokesperson of National Human Rights commission said that laws should not be formulated encroaching the fundamental rights mentioned in the constitution. \u201cGender does not mean only male and female, state should not undermine this community,\u201d said Ansari.\u00a0 Ansari said the issues of this community have reached in Parliament and there have been some changes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chairman of Blue Diamond Society Pinky Gurung said they cannot remain silent if laws are formulated flouting the constitutional provisions. She demanded to legalize the same-sex marriage. The program is attended by the representatives from all provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal has said that debate has started about the formulation laws to legalize same-sex marriage. Minister Dhakal said failure to mention this issue in criminal and civil codes does not mean that same-sex marriage would never be legalized.<br \/>\nAddressing a National Consultative meeting of sexual and gender minority, Dhakal said that government is serious about legalizing same-sex marriage. \u201cI am not in favor or against the same-sex marriage, i take it as a part of regular law reforming process of society according to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8,621,490,626],"tags":[203,502,588,586],"class_list":["post-11097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-human-rights","category-news","category-slider","category-video","tag-blue-diamond-society","tag-lgbti","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-sexual-and-gender-minority"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions\/11101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}