World Wide Wave

10 Feb 2018

NEPAL: WHEN HIV, LOVE AND IMMIGRATION COLLIDE

Asia/Pacific, News & Politics

Under the monarchy in Nepal, homosexuality was illegal.  But the end of the monarchy in 2007 saw a series of law changes – in the constitution, anti-discrimination laws and recognition of the third gender – that catapulted Nepal to having some of the most progressive LGBTI laws in Asia.

• To what degree have these law changes filtered through into everyday life in Nepal?
• What is the immigration process for bringing your LGBTI partner and soul mate to join you here in Australia?
• And how do you maintain focus – and sanity – over a long and challenging migration process?

Sharing his personal fight for love, we were joined in the studio by Baburam – a Nepalese national now living in Melbourne and fighting for the right for his partner to join him.

Broadcast: 6 February, 2018

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