Protection of Rights Bill | SabrangIndia News Related to Human Rights Tue, 19 Dec 2017 07:23:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://sabrangindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Favicon_0.png Protection of Rights Bill | SabrangIndia 32 32 “The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights Bill) 2016 criminalises Transgender Persons” https://sabrangindia.in/transgender-persons-protection-rights-bill-2016-criminalises-transgender-persons/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 07:23:07 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2017/12/19/transgender-persons-protection-rights-bill-2016-criminalises-transgender-persons/ The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights Bill) 2016 poses threat to some of the basic rights of transgender people. Far from guaranteeing their protection, the bill gets the definition of a transgender person wrong, and ends up excluding a majority of the community. Individuals and groups came together to protest the bill at Parliament Street, Delhi […]

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]]> The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights Bill) 2016 poses threat to some of the basic rights of transgender people. Far from guaranteeing their protection, the bill gets the definition of a transgender person wrong, and ends up excluding a majority of the community. Individuals and groups came together to protest the bill at Parliament Street, Delhi on 17th December.

 

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