Pakistaans Hoog Gerechtshof gaat erg ver

[djimi]

http://www.awid.org/Issues-and-Analy...-transvestites :

"The Supreme Court has ordered that transvestites, being equal citizens of Pakistan, should also benefit from the federal and provincial governments’ financial support schemes such as the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP)

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http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005864.html :

"Amidst all the high-level news about terrorism, the internal war in Swat Valley, and various military/foreign-policy questions, other topics in the news sometimes get overlooked.

To wit, Basim Usmani has an informative column up at Comment is Free on a recent ruling by Pakistan’s recently re-constituted Supreme Court, regarding Hijras:

Pakistan’s supreme court recently ruled that all hijras, the Urdu catch-all term for its transvestite, transgender and eunuch community, will be registered by the government as part of a survey that aims to integrate them further into society. The ruling followed a petition by Islamic jurist Dr Mohammad Aslam Khaki, who said the purpose was to “save them from a life of shame”.

Khaki’s petition was prompted by a police raid on a hijra colony in Taxila, an ancient city filled with some of the oldest Buddhist ruins in Pakistan. Two of the three judges on the bench that ruled in favour of the hijra petition, chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, were under house arrest for the better part of the past three years. This, coupled with the clobbering the police gave the lawyers during their demonstrations against the suspension of the judiciary in 2007, makes it easy to regard the hijra ruling as being directed against the police...
The usual qualifications apply — this ruling is far from a panacea for the Hijra community. Still, one interesting side-note Basim mentions is the fact, new to me, that Hijras in India recently gained the right to officially note their gender as “E” on government forms and passports, and while running for public office:

The move to recognise hijras has perhaps been part of a spillover from India’s efforts to recognise its own hijras following a stunt last April when three hijras applied to run for office to raise awareness about the “third sex issue”. As a result, hijras can now give their gender as “E” for eunuch on their passports and government forms.

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Voor een islamitisch land wel behoorlijk 'revolutionair', of niet?



Let wel, dit is 'oud nieuws', maar ik stootte er vandaag toevallig op en ben dat dan eens beginnen napluizen.

Wat ik vreemd vind is dat hier zo weinig ruchtbaarheid aan wordt gegeven. Omdat het niet in de plaatjes past, misschien? Ik zou het ook niet weten.

[Xenophon]

Ik veronderstel dat het goed nieuws is, alleen weet ik niet zo goed wat ik me hierbij:

eunuch community

moet voorstellen.

[tomm]

Ik kan me er wel iets bij voorstellen.

Transseksuelen worden vaak het derde geslacht genoemd in veel Zuid-Zuidoost Aziatische landen zoals Thailand, Indonesië, Indië, etc. en over het algemeen goed aanvaard. Pakistan is blijkbaar geen uitzondering. Overigens merkte ik in Thailand dat transseksuelen bijzonder in trek zijn bij toeristen uit Iran, de Golfregio en Indië... persoonlijk is het zo m'n ding niet, maar smaken verschillen hé...