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
Longreads
History Series
25 min read
Part 1: Recruiting haggles, Chandra, the game-changer, and getting a “K” for Bhim
Features
12 min read
Kesang Tseten, in documenting these grueling stories, has done his part by successfully bringing the experience of the Nepali migrant worker to our attention, and has thus recorded history in unforgettable images.
COVID19
News
3 min read
A daily summary of all Covid19 related developments that matter
Features
6 min read
Many migrant families in Kathmandu share cramped flats with each other, making physical distancing and self-quarantining impossible
Writing journeys
13 min read
This week on Writing Journeys, US-based journalist and writer Sanjay Upadhya recounts his time working at The Rising Nepal under the Panchayat and the lessons he’s learned along the way.
Explainers
4 min read
Despite showing positive signs, the army needs to come under CIAA’s jurisdiction to gain more credibility
Opinions
5 min read
The privileged must do more to facilitate and encourage discussions around the abuse and othering of the marginalized and systemically oppressed
