A Monitoring Guide 103 margins of society and often unable to obtain citizenship cards, they were systematically disenfranchised and unafforded the protection of the law. Monitoring checklist Is there any indication that LGBT persons are arbitrarily targeted by the police? What are the alleged grounds for apprehension or arrest? Are ambiguous legal grounds, such as those based on decency, debauchery, or vagrancy, used to arrest LGBT individuals? Is there any indication that police officers target specific establishments or public areas frequented by LGBT persons? If so, what are the alleged reasons? Is data available? Is there any indication that police officers use discriminatory and abusive language when apprehending LGBT persons? Conversely, do police officers display the skills and attitudes needed to ensure that LGBT are not discriminated against or harmed when apprehended? Do LGBT detainees have prompt access to lawyers following arrest? Chapter IV Following a petition filed by the Nepalese NGO “Blue Diamond Society”, the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the government was obliged to recognize the gender identity of metis persons, provide them all necessary documentation pertaining to this recognition, and take all necessary measures, including by enacting specific anti-discrimination legislation, to protect all LGBTI people. Considered by activists as “the single most comprehensive judgement affirming protections for gender identity anywhere in the world”, the ruling led not only to the successful application for citizenship cards under the category of “third gender” for several metis people, but reportedly also led to a decrease of up to 98% in police violence against members of this group.