Photo Essays
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Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated worldwide on March 8.The annual calendar event, according to United Nations, “is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women, who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities”.
This year International Women’s Day is being celebrated with the special 2020 theme, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. Like many other countries, Nepal has announced a public holiday and has organized various events to mark the day.
Brickklin worker in outskrits of Kathmandu valley.
Women workers carry sand in a doko- kind of basket made from bamboo at a construction site in Pokhara.
Women walking down trial with their dokos in Pokhara
Children play along with their grand mother at a front yard in Sarangkot, Pokhara.
Perspectives
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Since coming to power, Prime Minister Oli has attempted numerous times — via ordinances — to bypass the legislation and vest the powers to make laws within himself.
The Wire
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Nepal’s moneyed classes, aided by unscrupulous banks and an irresponsible government, have turned land into a quickly tradeable commodity
COVID19
Photo Essays
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People on the frontline continue to work despite fears and palpable risks
Perspectives
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Recently announced tax cuts will make EVs more competitive and help curb air pollution, but long-term urban sustainability plans must promote green open spaces and pedestrian and cycle-friendly roads
Features
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The harrowing journeys that Nepalis and others from Asia and Africa undertake to get to the US
Opinions
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Should development professionals feel guilty about traveling business class?
Perspectives
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Access to citizenship must expand beyond conjugality
Features
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Climate change and its consequences can be serious aggravators ofconflict, especially gender-based violence.
