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.
Books
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Mallika Shakya’s new book explains the “death” of the Nepali garment industry
News
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Reforms in Qatar’s labour laws could be instrumental in improving the working and living conditions of 400,000 Nepali migrant workers
Culture
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The upcoming sci-fi film Ningwasum explores indigeneity, liberty, climate change while critiquing colonialism, brahmanical patriarchy, and capitalism.
Perspectives
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Undeniable linkages between patriarchy, capitalism, and climate change require climate justice to go hand-in-hand with gender justice.
Features
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In the face of repeated denials by the governments of China and Nepal, a team of Nepalis has presented evidence of Chinese presence inside Humla
News
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Fact checked Nepal's map which is said to have included the disputed territory of Limpiyadhura in northwestern Nepal
Features
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Prabes Roka Magar spent 10 years fighting the state but now he’s disillusioned and looking to start a wine factory in Thabang, the heart of the Maoist insurgency.
Features
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The court’s decision to reopen Ranjan Koirala’s case brings hope of restoring public faith in the judiciary
