Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) Members of the transgender community in Pakistan’s Faisalabad have expressed concerns over the discrimination and the non-implementation of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018, especially the failure to implement the three per cent job quota in government and semi-government institutions, local media reported on Wednesday. A Victim Support Officer at a Police Service Center, Dr Farri, said that individuals from transgender community continue to face …
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London, March 12 (IANS) The pursuit of justice for murdered transgender women remains symbolic in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. As the numbers continues to rise, accountability remains absent and response of authorities is defined more due to inertia than intervention, a report has revealed. “In the narrow streets of Peshawar, the valleys of Swat, and the market towns stretching from Chitral to Dera Ismail Khan, violence against transgender people has become grimly routine in north…
Chennai, Jan 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday presented appointment orders to seven transgender persons as a symbolic gesture, marking the formal induction of 50 transgender recruits into the Tamil Nadu Home Guards, according to an official statement issued here.The selected candidates underwent specialised training to prepare for their roles within the state’s auxiliary security force.The move to induct transgender persons in Home Guards coincides with the implementatio…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided that the voters from three “aboriginal tribes” or “primitive tribes” will be automatically enlisted in the final voters’ list of West Bengal. The voters from these three communities will not be required to furnish any document for that purpose.Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that these “aboriginal tribes” or “primitive tribes”, whose voters will be automatically enlisted in the …
Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Thursday evening, had announced special relaxations for four categories of voters as regards to identity proof-related formalities to be followed at the ongoing hearing sessions on the claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, which is the second stage of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.These four categories are people from the tribal community, sex workers, people from the tran…