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
6 min read
The sporadic global events keep reminding us that the fate of these workers is prone to fragility the same as the country’s sources of foreign revenues.
Perspectives
Opinions
7 min read
On the eve of his arrest, Anand Teltumbde speaks to his people
Podcast
History Series
1 min read
Juddha faces resistance from the Rana family, the Nepali dissenters, and the British India
Features
11 min read
The commission’s recently published list of rights abusers who remain unpunished shines a light on the culture of impunity that has plagued the country for far too long
Features
11 min read
Caste is such a system of organization and thought that it creates division and discrimination between oppressed groups, to the extent of even abusing their human rights.
Podcast
13 min read
Nijgadh is not about environment vs. development, it’s the economics that makes no sense at all.
Explainers
4 min read
Beneath the biggest tax fraud in history lies a corrupt nexus among politicians and businesses
