Rik Gluaert

LGBTI rights advocates in Nepal have encouraged the government to conduct a census of the LGBTI community. According to local LGBTI publication Pahichan, the government last conducted a survey 10 years ago. They found 4,000 people identified as LGBTI. But, according to Pahichan, Nepal’s population of LGBTI people numbers more than 500,000. They report that about 300 LGBTI public service sector workers are out. This suggests the number of LGBTI people in the whole country is much higher than 4,000. Now that the government has shown interest in conducting a census of the LGBTI population, activists are urging the government […]