{"id":11384,"date":"2019-11-22T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/south-korean-mps-seek-to-exempt-lgbt-community-from-anti-discrimination-law"},"modified":"2019-11-22T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:01:03","slug":"outcry-as-conservative-south-korean-mps-seek-to-curtail-lgbt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11384","title":{"rendered":"Outcry as conservative South Korean MPs seek to curtail LGBT rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners condemn attempt to remove protection for \u2018sexual orientation\u2019 from new legislation<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> have condemned an attempt by conservative MPs to remove homophobia and transphobia from a list of violations of an anti-discrimination law.<\/p>\n<p>An amendment submitted this month by Ahn Sang-soo, a member of the main opposition Liberty Korea party, seeks to remove sexual minorities from groups protected by the law, sparking protests by rights groups and members of the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/22\/south-korean-mps-seek-to-exempt-lgbt-community-from-anti-discrimination-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners condemn attempt to remove protection for \u2018sexual orientation\u2019 from new legislationCampaigners in South Korea have condemned an attempt by conservative MPs to remove homophobia and transphobia from a list of violations of an anti-discriminat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,72,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbt-rights","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11407,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11384\/revisions\/11407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}