{"id":56,"date":"2007-12-21T12:58:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T18:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/nepal-court-rules-on-gay-rights\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T18:58:55","slug":"nepal-court-rules-on-gay-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/nepal-court-rules-on-gay-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal court rules on gay rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Nepal&#8217;s Supreme Court has ordered the government to scrap laws that discriminate against homosexuals.<\/strong> <\/font>The court ordered that sexual minorities should be guaranteed the same rights as other citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners said the ruling was a &#8220;huge victory&#8221;. Homosexuality is frowned upon in conservative South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>More on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7156577.stm\">BBC website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal&#8217;s Supreme Court has ordered the government to scrap laws that discriminate against homosexuals. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-news","category-gay-news","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}