{"id":1114,"date":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/17\/2001-08-17-nepal-outlaws-caste-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-17T12:00:00","slug":"2001-08-17-nepal-outlaws-caste-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/17\/2001-08-17-nepal-outlaws-caste-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Outlaws Caste Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/international\/AP-Nepal-Untouchables.html?ex=998973532&#038;ei=1&#038;en=3c10c0596b212bf1\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KATMANDU, NEPAL, Aug, 16, 2001:  The Nepalese government said it would outlaw discrimination against lower-caste Hindus and pledged to pass a law ending the centuries-old system that deems certain people &#8220;untouchable.&#8221; &#8220;Effective from this day the practice of untouchability and any discrimination based on it will be considered a crime punishable by a severe sentence,&#8221; Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba told Parliament, announcing his new government&#8217;s policy. He did not say what the punishment would be. Deuba, who came to power last month after the resignation of an unpopular prime minister and the massacre of Nepal&#8217;s royal family, said his Cabinet reached the decision as part of a package of sweeping reforms. The country&#8217;s latest census has yet to be made public, and it was unclear how many Dalits are among Nepal&#8217;s 23 million people.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE KATMANDU, NEPAL, Aug, 16, 2001: The Nepalese government said it would outlaw discrimination against lower-caste Hindus and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}