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
5 min read
Sixty-five-year-old Chandra Kala Dhimal is one of the last few weavers from the indigenous Dhimal community still keeping traditional wooden weaving alive.
Culture
5 min read
How a Facebook group called “Subtle Nepali Traits” is helping young people define what it is to be Nepali
COVID19
Features
5 min read
Vaccinating Nepalis will cost billions of rupees, but the Oli government would rather divert government funds towards election preparations
Features
The Wire
8 min read
Laprak was heavily damaged during the earthquake; its fate now hangs in the balance
Perspectives
Opinions
4 min read
On April 24, 2016, exactly a year after the 2015 earthquake, Prime Minister K.P. Shama Oli launched the reconstruction campaign by laying the foundation stone for the house of Sarita Tamang in Chautara, Sindhupalchok. Sarita Tamang talks about the media spectacle that surrounded Oli laying the foundation stone, and the subsequent absence of government support during the actual construction work
Photo Essays
9 min read
A visual glimpse into how infrastructure development and trade are changing the area’s geopolitical and geoeconomic significance.
Week in Politics
6 min read
The week in politics: what happened, what does it mean, why does it matter?
Features
COVID19
6 min read
Mismanagement and overcrowding continue to plague the vaccination campaign in the Kathmandu Valley, despite numerous past instances to learn from.
