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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The ongoing border dispute, inflamed by India, has given back the reins of the country to an otherwise faltering premier
COVID19
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A daily summary of Covid19 related developments that matter
Perspectives
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Covid-19 has highlighted the potential benefits of small-scale family farming
Features
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The families of the victims of the Rukum murders eye the government’s recent compensation offer with suspicion
Explainers
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The proposed citizenship bill is unfair to women who marry Nepali men and will do nothing for those rendered stateles
Writing journeys
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This week in Writing Journeys, filmmaker Kesang Tseten speaks about his dramaturgical approach to making films.
Features
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Nepal’s Department of Tourism has come under fire for awarding summit certificates to climbers who never made it to the top of Everest