Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Bangladesh: "I Want to Live with My Head Held High"
Abuses in Bangladesh's legal recognition of hijras
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| Other authors / contributors: | Human Rights Watch (Organization), publisher, issuing body.
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| Notes: | "December 23, 2016"--Table of contents page.
"Kyle Knight, researcher in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights program and another Human Rights Watch researcher researched and wrote this report"--Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from HTML title caption (Human Rights Watch, viewed January 11, 2017).
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| Summary: | "The report, "'I Want To Live With My Head Held High:' Abuses in Bangladesh's Legal Recognition of Hijras", documents abuses suffered by a group of hijras, when they were forced to undergo so-called medical examinations at a hospital in Dhaka, the capital, in 2015, as part of a government employment program. The medical exams were ordered as part of the routine government hiring procedure, but absent a clear procedure to identify and respect hijras, hospital staff responded based on their own personal biases. Although a 2013 directive from the cabinet recognizes hijras as a third gender, the government has not developed rights-based procedures for changing their gender on official documents, leaving them open to abuse when they seek to assert their rights, Human Rights Watch found"--Publisher's description.
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| Other form: | Print version. Knight, Kyle. "I want to live with my head held high" : abuses in Bangladesh's legal recognition of hijras. [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2016]. 9781623134341
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