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.
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The coronavirus has cut through the democratic facade to show how deep inequality runs in Nepali society
Books
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Many of the poems in Itisha Giri’s new collection are dedicated to women, talk about women, and diagnose how women occupy the pages but have not been allowed to occupy similar spaces in society.
Features
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The deportation of Nepali migrant workers from Qatar is just one example of the unfair treatment they have experienced abroad
Features
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Week in Politics
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The week in politics: what happened, what does it mean, why does it matter?
COVID19
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Many Nepalis are despairing at the Nepal-India border after being denied entry to their own country
COVID19
Features
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A three week long prohibitory order has been eased in the capital, allowing regulated mobility of people
News
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India’s inauguration of the link road to Mansarovar causes alarm in Nepal, but is a press statement enough?
