{"id":236325,"date":"2023-04-05T20:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236325"},"modified":"2023-04-05T20:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:43:59","slug":"equality-and-justice-for-and-beyond-queer-and-trans-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/equality-and-justice-for-and-beyond-queer-and-trans-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality and justice, for and beyond queer and trans community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source-<\/strong> The post is based on the article \u201cEquality and justice, for and beyond queer and trans community\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 5th April 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Vulnerable sections of the populations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Issues related to discriminated sections of the society<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article deals with issues of equality and justice for discriminated communities.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is progress achieved in India on rights of vulnerable communities?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In <strong>Naz Foundation v Govt of NCT (2009)<\/strong>, the Delhi HC decriminalized homosexual sex between adults. The Supreme Court struck down <strong>Section 377<\/strong> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the government is proactive in <strong>HIV\/AIDS sensitization<\/strong>. The<strong> National AIDS Program <\/strong>has been a crucial step forward. It allows innumerable citizens to have access to <strong>free information, medicines, and healthcare. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is needed for true equality and justice of vulnerable communities?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> <strong>people-first policies<\/strong> are required. People are not at the center of government interventions. Implementation of policies and laws continues to be a challenge. Tackling this requires a <strong>change in strategy<\/strong>. There is a need for <strong>reimagining policy, law, and interventions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a need to focus on <strong>values of empathy, love and respect<\/strong>. Children should be taught these values. These should be prompted as <strong>core values in our society.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source- The post is based on the article \u201cEquality and justice, for and beyond queer and trans community\u201d published in \u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 5th April 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Vulnerable sections of the populations Relevance&#8211; Issues related to discriminated sections of the society News&#8211; The article deals with issues of equality and justice for discriminated&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/equality-and-justice-for-and-beyond-queer-and-trans-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Equality and justice, for and beyond queer and trans community<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-236325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702560793},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}