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
Interviews
4 min read
Four Kathmanduites share what it was like growing up Madhesi in the capital
Opinions
8 min read
A soil scientist’s reflections from three and a half years of agricultural research
Features
5 min read
In Kaski, agriculturalist Kushal Poudel is planting indigenous crops to keep age-old farming techniques alive while also adapting to the changing climate.
Explainers
5 min read
True democratic or participatory development occurs when local communities are heard by their government, and have a say in decisions that affect them.
Week in Politics
5 min read
The week in politics: what happened, what does it mean, why does it matter?
COVID19
News
5 min read
A daily summary of Covid19 related developments that matter
The Wire
Features
25 min read
On Nepal’s largest island, Tharu local governance has allowed traditional irrigation practices to survive
Interviews
1 min read
Dalit women have to overcome many obstacles in order to lead. The story of Nanumaya Gandarva, an elected Dalit representative from Rambha Rural Municipality, Palpa.
