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| paramendra | Posted
on 27-Sep-02 06:06 PM
Nepal women win abortion rights http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2285373.stm |
| paramendra | Posted
on 27-Sep-02 06:10 PM
"The legislation, which took years to formulate and faced considerable opposition, allows women to inherit their parents' property as well." This is a bigger news than the anti-corruption probe tamasha. Long overdue. Hopefully the achievement will snowball. |
| anepalikt | Posted
on 28-Sep-02 03:05 PM
Interesting. Thanks Paramendra. Do you know if we can access the actual legislation online? Does it cover citizenship? |
| paramendra | Posted
on 28-Sep-02 03:12 PM
More Coverage Online I am sure they have the legislation online. I just don't know where. If they have not included the citizenship stuff yet, that ought to be next. When a Nepali man marries someone from another country, she gets citizenship. Nepali women deserve the same. When they marry men from another country. I'm with you. More |
| anepalikt | Posted
on 28-Sep-02 03:40 PM
Thanks Paramendra. One of the links led to a page that said: "The passage of the 11th Amendment Bill modifies a host of discriminatory laws in the Nepal Civil Code that affect women, ranging from equal rights to grant citizenship to children and equal rights to ancestral property, as well as safe abortion." If this is true, it's interesting that most of the coverage focuses on the abortion part of it. I'll check out Nepalnews to see if they got anything there. |
| paramendra | Posted
on 29-Sep-02 01:34 PM
"...ranging from equal rights to grant citizenship to children .." Well, now I really want to see the details myself! |