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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Unequal power relations and extractive development are condemning Tamang communities to poverty
Explainers
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Beneath the biggest tax fraud in history lies a corrupt nexus among politicians and businesses
Photo Essays
COVID19
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As the second Covid-19 wave consumes the country, funeral pyres bear witness to the devastation wrought by the pandemic.
Opinions
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To prevent students from falling behind during this crisis and beyond, teachers must be provided all the help they need
Features
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Many believe leaving Kathmandu will bring them to safety, but it exposes them to greater risks
Photo Essays
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The coronavirus pandemic brought a faint hope for some that their family members who disappeared during the People’s War might finally return
Features
Photo Essays
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Changing weather patterns, a possible consequence of climate change, have already stopped apple farming in the region and are now threatening potato production.
News
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Police respond to protests with water cannons and arrests
