Kathmandu (Pahichan) August 22\u2014Nepali Congress Constituent Assembly (CA) Badri Pandey has said that new constitution should not overlook the gender and sexual minorities. Pandey said new constitution should ensure the rights of homosexuals, transgender and other sexual minorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe law should not overlook the homosexual and transgender\u201d speaking with Radio program Pahichan Pandey said, \u201cThe new constitution should pave the way for ensuring the rights of gender and sexual minorities. \u00a0According to him, preliminary draft of constitution has ensured the rights of gender and sexual minorities.<\/p>\n
The word sexual orientation which has been incorporated under fundamental right section is sufficient for preparing law, said Pandey. \u201cPeople should not be deprived from the fundamental right the gets by birth, people should be free whatever they want or desire,\u201d Pandey said adding that new constitution would not discriminate any citizens.\u00a0 He said there should not be discrimination on the basis of identity.<\/p>\n
Blue Diamond Society is pressing to ensure the rights of sexual minorities. LGBTI community has already received citizenship and passports as per their gender identity. Society is asking to legalize same-sex marriage. Researchers have said that eight to ten percent of total populations are LGBTI. According to Society, there is one million homosexuals and transgender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu (Pahichan) August 22\u2014Nepali Congress Constituent Assembly (CA) Badri Pandey has said that new constitution should not overlook the gender and sexual minorities. Pandey said new constitution should ensure the rights of homosexuals, transgender and other sexual minorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,621,490],"tags":[203,617,438,548],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-news","category-slider","tag-blue-diamond-society","tag-homosexual-and-transgender","tag-lgbti-community","tag-sexual-minorities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","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=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}