Nepal – Legislative Action for Gender Equality & Rights
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: May 22, 2006
Nepal Women’s Rights Law Hailed
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Women’s The Nepalese parliament unanimously voted in favour of the resolution, She said the proposed law, which would give full citizenship to The cabinet would now have to replace laws it feels is discriminatory. ‘Progressive step’ “We need to turn around the patriarchy system and make several reforms A local women’s group report in 2000 found 118 laws which discriminated Lawyer Pushpa Bhusal told the BBC the new provision will also protect Senior advocate Radheshyam Adhikari called the resolution a The resolution said there should be at least one-third representation How the resolution will be translated into action is, however, not Nepal’s Supreme Court had earlier made a number of landmark decisions |
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