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.
Interviews
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Future of the community forest is at stake.
Perspectives
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The party will probably remain together if only because the costs of splitting far outweigh the benefits
Features
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Local bodies across Nepal are funneling scarce resources into pointless projects like stadiums even as people in their constituency struggle to make a living
Photo Essays
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The coronavirus pandemic brought a faint hope for some that their family members who disappeared during the People’s War might finally return
Opinions
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Demand for the reinstatement of capital punishment in the Constitution goes against Nepal’s human rights obligations
Photo Essays
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Kathmandu, our eternally bustling capital, has been lulled into sleep by the forbidding coronavirus
Features
Longreads
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Two visits to the United Kingdom in different eras
Features
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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.
