COVID19
Photo Essays
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The Nepal government’s announcement of a lockdown threw millions of lives in disarray, perhaps none more so than that of migrant workers looking to return home.
How will we remember 2020? The Record is republishing stories from a curated series of visual stories commissioned by photo.circle that presents the work of visual storytellers based across Nepal who began documenting their communities since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
When Nepal enforced a nationwide lockdown on March 24, 2020 in response to the spreading Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of migrants were stuck outside of the country’s borders with no way to get back home. Nepali migrant workers in India began to return home in droves as the pandemic shut down industries, factories and most places of employment.
Over just one weekend at the end of May, 19,000 Nepalis crossed the border into Nepal at Gauriphanta in Kailali. New arrivals are sent to quarantine and according to Narendra Karki, chief of the Health Division at the provincial Ministry of Social Development, 37,000 people have been quarantined since the lockdown was enforced. However, only 1,500 of those who arrived have been given Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests.
This story was produced for the Nepal Photo Project with support from the photo.circle 2020 grant.
Interviews
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Saraswoti Nepali, recipient of this year’s Darnal Award, in conversation with Gyanu Adhikari
Features
Explainers
Longreads
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What does peace mean to the Nepali people, especially the country’s many minority groups? The Record explores, and answers.
News
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Now that Deuba has obtained the vote of confidence in the House, he will need to move quickly and decisively to control the pandemic and ensure vaccinations for all.
Features
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NCP faction names Madhav Kumar Nepal as the party chief to replace KP Oli as Oli expands the party’s central committee by incorporating his loyalists
Features
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Youths working their first jobs are often overworked, underpaid, sexually harassed, and mentally tormented by predatory employers in the name of opportunity and exposure.
Features
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Menstrual education in Nepal is woefully inadequate and, at times, actively harmful, posing risks to health while reinforcing existing stereotypes and stigmas.
Explainers
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Young children with developing bodies are at particular risk of long-term health complications from particulate matter in Kathmandu’s air.
Perspectives
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Less than 0.2 percent of our elected local reps are Tharu women. Read the first in an occasional series on women and political participation.
