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.
Culture
Books
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Aid and experts bring tyranny, and the only path to prosperity is through rights, argues the world’s best-known critic of the development industry
Explainers
5 min read
True democratic or participatory development occurs when local communities are heard by their government, and have a say in decisions that affect them.
Features
5 min read
Determined to crush Maoist rebels instead of seeking a political solution, Oli is repeating the same mistakes Deuba made in the 90s which resulted in a decade-long people’s war
Features
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PM Oli and his backers would like to appoint a new chief at the NEA, but are afraid that would further fan the flames of public anger
Features
Photo Essays
6 min read
Abandoned by the government and harassed by the monsoon rains, slum dwellers lack shelter when they need it most.
Perspectives
5 min read
A letter from one of our readers reflects on the need for Nepal’s school children to learn at least two languages – one Nepali and the other freely chosen.
Podcast
13 min read
Nijgadh is not about environment vs. development, it’s the economics that makes no sense at all.
COVID19
News
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The institutionalized elderly in Kathmandu have found their diets significantly altered by gas shortage
