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
7 min read
The state’s practice of paying out compensations to protect its personnel from prosecution prevents actual justice from being delivered and helps promote a culture of impunity
Photo Essays
7 min read
How the Rais of Bhojpur use alcohol to soften life’s blows
Features
COVID19
6 min read
Mismanagement and overcrowding continue to plague the vaccination campaign in the Kathmandu Valley, despite numerous past instances to learn from.
Perspectives
Interviews
4 min read
Four Kathmanduites share what it was like growing up Madhesi in the capital
Features
5 min read
As no formal orders have been placed and no agreements drawn up, even the Health Minister is looking to the gods.
Opinions
5 min read
Education can only be the great equaliser if everyone is provided quality education.
Features
8 min read
The way Nepalis approach love and courtship has changed a great deal over time, and the emergence of digital platforms has had a significant impact on how dating dynamics have evolved in Nepal.
The Wire
Features
9 min read
Slavery is the new normal for migrant workers, our reporter discovers in Qatar
