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.
Features
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The government’s failed Covid response is another indication of its unwillingness to uphold its constitutional responsibility
Record Blog
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The majority of businesses, especially in the service sector, will probably not survive in the absence of state aid packages and guarantees
Books
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Eight young Nepali writers imagine the possible futures of climate change in a new collection featuring poetry and short fiction.
The Wire
Features
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In Saptari, four Madhesi protesters are killed by the police within 24 hours
Perspectives
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The ordinance gave thousands of Nepalis who have no citizenship hope that they could perhaps finally get one. But with the Supreme Court declaring it void, that hope has been lost for now.
The Wire
Features
Photo Essays
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A photo essay on the Rasuwagadhi road and why landslides are cutting it more often
