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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Mass protests demanding a return to monarchy and a Hindu state show the public’s simmering discontentment with a left-led government
COVID19
Features
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The sudden surge in the number of deaths is an indication that Nepal’s Covid crisis is deepening
Perspectives
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The effects of two centuries of exploitation in the Tamang heartland are inhibiting its recovery from the earthquake
Explainers
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At least two memes are circulating on social media in Nepal praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for granting audience to a visually-impaired Russian teenager. Some of the claims made in the memes are false.
COVID19
News
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A daily summary of Covid19-related developments that matter
COVID19
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The second wave is here and unless the government acts soon, Nepal will be in the midst of a public health disaster
COVID19
News
4 min read
A daily summary of Covid19-related developments that matter
