{"id":41751,"date":"2022-02-16T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T22:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/16\/new-zealand-bans-conversion-practices-in-vote-hailed-as-win-for-humanity"},"modified":"2022-02-16T07:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T22:57:27","slug":"new-zealand-bans-conversion-practices-in-vote-hailed-as-win-for-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41751","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand bans conversion practices in vote hailed as \u2018win for humanity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law makes it an offence to perform so-called \u2018therapy\u2019 on anyone under 18 and comes with sentence of up to three years\u2019 imprisonment<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has banned conversion practices, with near unanimity, after all but eight National party members voted in favour of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Conversion \u201ctherapy\u201d refers to the practice, often by religious groups, of trying to \u201ccure\u201d people of their sexuality, gender expression or LGBTQI identity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/16\/new-zealand-bans-conversion-practices-in-vote-hailed-as-win-for-humanity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law makes it an offence to perform so-called \u2018therapy\u2019 on anyone under 18 and comes with sentence of up to three years\u2019 imprisonmentNew Zealand has banned conversion practices, with near unanimity, after all but eight National party members voted in fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,646,53,86,72,56,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender","category-human-rights","category-law","category-lgbt-rights","category-new-zealand","category-sexuality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41751","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41752,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41751\/revisions\/41752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}