{"id":7438,"date":"2016-01-18T20:54:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=7438"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:06:20","slug":"nepalese-constitution-2072-discriminatory-citizenship-rights-nepali-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/nepalese-constitution-2072-discriminatory-citizenship-rights-nepali-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepalese Constitution 2072: Discriminatory Citizenship Rights (Nepali version)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There is no two questions about Nepal being a highly patriarchal society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economic and gender equality<\/a> being one of the three main passions of mine — education<\/a> and social justice<\/a> being the other two — I have written many blog posts about how Nepal, not unlike many other countries I have lived in and visited, has been and continues to be a country by men, for men<\/a>, at the expenses of not just the girls and women, but also at the country’s and the men’s! I have also spoken<\/a> about it at a number of different venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from poverty<\/a> and our culture and tradition<\/a> making life very very difficult for girls and women, driving an unhealthy number of them to choose death over life,<\/a> the constitution promulgated last year on September 20, blatantly discriminates against women on the rights to pass on citizenship to children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reproduced below are a series of informative and very well made Nepali version of the info-graphs produced by Supriya Manandhar and her friends, about the provision, which originally appeared on Imgur<\/a>. I am reproducing them here with permission from Supriya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Versions in other languages spoken in the country are on the way. After all, according to the 2011 census report<\/a>, less than half — 44.6% — of the population speak Nepali as mother tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(For the English version, click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Citizenship Provisions in Constitution 2072 (In Nepali)<\/a><\/blockquote>