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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Why the Gorkhali court was plagued by intrigues and conspiracies
Explainers
4 min read
They want free, prior, and informed consent
Explainers
5 min read
By dissolving the House and pushing through an ordinance, Oli has twisted the law to place his own men in powerful constitutional positions.
COVID19
News
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Kathmandu must brace itself as Covid cases continue to rise
COVID19
News
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The government will need more vaccines and the funds to buy them to meet its immunisation goals
Explainers
5 min read
But it remains to be seen if it will be implemented properly
COVID19
5 min read
The coronavirus has cut through the democratic facade to show how deep inequality runs in Nepali society
Perspectives
11 min read
The most significant international climate event since the Paris Accord is two days away. For Nepal, its citizens’ lives and its long-term development trajectory are at stake.
