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Sexual and Gender Minorities Student Forum Nepal (SGMSFN) |
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Security Guard Training |
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Beauty and Hair makeup Training |
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Motor Driving Training |
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Rainbow News
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Blue Diamond Society Launches Nationwide Television Program
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Hon’ble Sunil Babu Pant is hosting a new TV show every week on Saturday at 9:30pm on Nepal’s national television, “Nepal Television”. The repeat telecast of this program can be viewed every Tuesday at 3pm. pink here |
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Nepal To Commemorate IDAHO With Beauty Pageant
Nepal’s Blue Diamond Society and more than 30 other LGBTI organizations will hold a Miss IDAHO Nepal beauty contest for Nepali third-genders on May 17 to mark this year’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. pink here
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BDS & USAID Jointly Hosted Disaster Risk Reduction And Relief Program LGBTI Inclusive
In collaboration with the Blue Diamond Society, the U.S. Government’s Disaster Risk Reduction Office organized a workshop on“How to Make Disaster Risk Reduction LGBTI-Inclusive” on Friday, April 27 from 9:00 am – 12:00 noon, followed by lunch. The event was held at the Blue Diamond Society’s office in Lazimpat, Kathmandu (www.bds.org.np). The goal of the half-day workshop was to bring stakeholders from the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) community and DRR community together to discuss how disaster planning and the provision of humanitarian assistance could be more LGBTI-inclusive. Presentations from NSET-Nepal, USAID, and Red Cross-Nepal are on the agenda. pink here
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Sunil Babu Pant Deactivates Facebook Account In Protest
On March 22nd, I wrote an open letter to one of the most powerful businessmen the world has ever known, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of facebook, the world’s most popular website. My request was simple: allow people who do not identify as male or female equal opportunity to express themselves by adding an “other” option under sex on facebook profiles. pink here
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Nepal First Gender-inclusive Toilet Unveiled In Nepalgunj
This afternoon, Asia’s only openly-gay federal-level politician and director of Nepal’s first LGBTI rights organization Blue Diamond Society, Sunil Babu Pant, unveiled the country’s first gender-inclusive public toilet. The facility was constructed using Pant’s Parliamentary Development Fund, an allotment given to each Member of Parliament annually for development projects around the country. pink here
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Blue Diamond Society Director Encourages Facebook To Celebrate Diversity
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook, Inc.
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
My name is Sunil Babu Pant. I am the founder and director of Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s first LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) rights organization. pink here
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Blue Diamond Society Summary Report 2011
Blue Diamond Society (BDS), in promoting the rights, advocacy and empowerment of sexual and gender minorities (SGM), ensures lasting and sustainable change. It recognizes that change needs to occur at a community and societal level, as well as an institutional level – this is the fundamental rationale for the programmatic areas of the organization.pink here
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Contribution made by Sidaction
Immediately following the establishment of Blue Diamond Society in 2001, the organization started expanding rapidly through community-based projects on HIV/AIDS prevention and advocacy services for all sexual minorities in Nepal. It operated a drop-in center, a free STD clinic, and did outreach work. By the end of 2003, the organization was able to establish informal networks in more than 15 cities across the country.pink here
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Supreme Court Decision - summary note
Where-at this petition on behalf of the minority people based on the sexual orientation and gender identity has come to be in submission. As the petition states the lesbian, gasy, bisexual, transsexual and inter-sex persons, neither of whom fall under the categories of male and female are not able to obtain from the government offices identity documents, including the citizenship card on their own sex;as a citizen, are unable to enjoy the public facilities in any public offices including the study in teaching institutions; and, even from the public offices and officials bearing a public post received degrading and humiliating treatment; and hence demanded to repeal all current unilateral laws, which is based on the female and male notion and is discriminatory, and to protect the human and fundamental rights. pink here |
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Yogyakarta Principles |
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In November of 2006 twenty-nine distinguished experts from twenty-five countries with expertise in human rights law met at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. These experts unanimously adopted the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. pink here
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"I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment." -- H.H. Dalai Lama
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