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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When we hide behind ji, dai and didi, ageist and patriarchal relations take over the workspaces, and that is hard to shake off.
COVID19
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Dignified regional cooperation is the need of the hour and self-reliance the major goal
Features
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A year ago Nepal first went into lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19. A year later, new cases are rising once again.
Features
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Statelessness is amongst the many problems plaguing the immigrant community
Features
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Report finds that there is no way to keep global warming under 2℃ without significant reductions in land sector emissions
Perspectives
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Nepal will be inviting FDI in agriculture, when it is India’s involvement of corporate interests in its agriculture sector that has led to massive protests.
Features
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To boost economic growth, the government is providing low interest loans for young entrepreneurs, but given the experience of similar past loans, both entrepreneurs and banks remain skeptical.
