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
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Hundreds of women rallied to protest impunity in cases of rape and newly proposed immigration rules that would restrict women’s free movement.
Opinions
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The Covid-19 pandemic, with its demands for physical distancing, brings with it an opportunity to reorganise and reshape our cities
Perspectives
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Can the face of the Citizen’s Movement be that of the subaltern collective, one that disrupts the elite history of the nation-state?
Culture
Books
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Prashant Jha’s debut, Battles of the New Republic, provides an insider’s view of the roles politicians, diplomats, and spies played in Nepal’s Maoist and Madhesi movements
The Wire
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Survivors resort to their own funds to rebuild
Photo Essays
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A visual glimpse into how infrastructure development and trade are changing the area’s geopolitical and geoeconomic significance.
Perspectives
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Sapana Sanjeevani’s poem took aim at the patriarchal foundations of religion and society, and for that, she’s become the target of death and rape threats.
Week in Politics
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The week in politics: what happened, why does it matter, what does it mean?
