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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School teachers inflicting physical and psychological abuse on students is rampant in Nepal, reflecting the sorry state of education in the country.
Features
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Hospitals that don’t abide by the MoHP’s directive won’t be able to continue operating
Perspectives
Opinions
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Local agents, governments, and major multinational corporations are all complicit in the exploitation of migrant workers
Podcast
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Marty Logan speaks with Nepalis about building a better country.
Perspectives
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Taking all means to retain power, Oli has indicated that he is heading down an authoritarian path
News
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Fact checked Nepal's map which is said to have included the disputed territory of Limpiyadhura in northwestern Nepal
COVID19
News
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A daily summary of all Covid19 related developments that matter
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Popular
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Boudha once had a long and rich relationship with water but with the explosion of concrete houses and paved roads, fresh water is becoming more and more scarce.
