Uma Devi Badi (born 1965) is a Provincial Assembly Member of Sudur Paschim Province in Nepal, elected in 2017.
[1] Uma Devi Badi refused to settle for society's expectations of women of her caste and escaped life as a prostitute in order to work towards offering her community better opportunities for their future.
Their demands were for the government to enact the 2005 Supreme Court Order to improve the living conditions of the Badi community with a 26-point list of issues to be addressed.
[4] These included end of prostitution and untouchability, permanent shelter for an otherwise nomadic community, registration of their births and citizenship in the mother's name for their children.
[5] When their demands remained unheard, Uma Devi Badi escalated the protest, removing her clothes from her top half and hanging from the gate of the seat of government while chanting slogans.