{"id":8404,"date":"2017-09-22T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T07:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T07:03:20","slug":"govt-parliament-should-play-a-proactive-role-to-ensure-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/govt-parliament-should-play-a-proactive-role-to-ensure-same-sex-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Govt, Parliament should play a proactive role to ensure same-sex marriage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmanu (Pahichan) September 22 &#8211; Former Treasurer of Nepal Bar Association Mohan Ingnam has said that there is no need of special laws if government has willpower to legalize same-sex marriage. Speaking to Pahichan, he said as constitution has already provided the rights of equality there is no need of special laws.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marriage itself is a civil law. So the issue could be resolved through the same law. The issue of bringing special laws means both government and parliament are not ready,&#8221; he said, adding that there is a lack of proactive role when it comes to providing rights to gender and sexual minority.<\/p>\n<p>He said there is a need of formulating laws per the constitutional provisions. He said the pace of constitution implementation is very low.<\/p>\n<p>He said the transformed Parliament could not play sufficient role as parties were engaged in other issues. He underlined the need of continuously raising the issues of gender and sexual minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmanu (Pahichan) September 22 &#8211; Former Treasurer of Nepal Bar Association Mohan Ingnam has said that there is no need of special laws if government has willpower to legalize same-sex marriage. Speaking to Pahichan, he said as constitution has already provided the rights of equality there is no need of special laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,621,490],"tags":[724,430,530,588],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","category-news","category-slider","tag-gender-and-sexual-minority","tag-nepal-bar-association","tag-parliament","tag-same-sex-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","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=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8406,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions\/8406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}