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.
The Wire
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Navigating Nepali citizenship, Tibetan heritage, and a dependence on China
News
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A recently released AI report shows how Qatar is still mistreating migrant workers from countries like Nepal
Features
11 min read
The journey of a Nepali migrant who crossed 15 borders to reach the US
Features
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One woman's journey of autism discovery.
Interviews
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Future of the community forest is at stake.
Books
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The Gurkhas: A True Story by Tim I Gurung disrupts existing narratives on Gurkha history and experiences that have been penned mostly by western writers
Features
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In a Newa village south of Lalitpur Municipality, a community grapples with the prospect of monumental change.
Features
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Youths working their first jobs are often overworked, underpaid, sexually harassed, and mentally tormented by predatory employers in the name of opportunity and exposure.
