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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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 official height of Everest was determined through the use of high-tech instruments and with Nepali surveyors making the dangerous climb to the top of the mountain
COVID19
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A daily summary of all Covid19 related developments that matter
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The mass-quarantine centres in Nepal are only adding to the suffering of migrant workers returning from India
The Wire
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Nepal's labor migration defies easy analysis. Migrant men and women are profoundly changing society, but at what cost?
COVID19
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A new set of rules enforced on the eve of the reopening appear designed to ensure Covid’s rapid spread rather than containment
COVID19
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A daily summary of all Covid19 related developments that matter
COVID19
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With the govt unable to implement a coherent Covid strategy--including regarding festivals--fed up Lalitpur denizens take matters into their own hands
