Badi women stage protest in front of Singha Durbar
Demanding proper rehabilitation, women from Badi community, a small Dalit community inhabiting some mid-western and far-western districts that traditionally depends on prostitution for livelihood, staged demonstration in front of Singha Durbar, Kathmandu, on Wednesday.
Around three dozen Badi women, some of them semi-nude, staged protests at the southern gate of Singha Durbar. Police took under control over half a dozen Badi women for demonstrating in the restricted area.
Male members of the Badi community also participated in the protest.
Hundreds of Badi women, who are the main bread earners of their families, have been carrying out protest in the capital for the last few days demanding farming land and legal identity to their children who are deprived of citizenship certificates. nepalnews.com mk/rh Aug 22 07
