Tag: #discrimination
Articles tagged with #discrimination
During the pandemic, don’t forget leprosy
Early detection, treatment, rehabilitation and efforts to eliminate discrimination must continue even as Covid-19 threatens to undo past gains against leprosy
How the climate crisis adds to child marriage in Nepal
As harvests fail due to drought and floods, girls from marginalised families are forced to marry earlier to escape poverty
Dalits, disasters and discrimination
Flood impacted Dalit house in Rajapur, Bardiya, in 2010. Last week, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA)…
Dalits, disasters and discrimination
Flood impacted Dalit house in Rajapur, Bardiya, in 2010. Last week, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA)…
Caste aside, Dalits battle stigma
Durga Sob, politicianDurga Sob was born in Doti, and was sent by her family for higher studies in Kathmandu in 1980. She had faced caste…
Love's victory over racial hatred
Mildred and Richard Loving were sentenced to jail for their inter-ethnic marriage. They took the case to the Supreme Court, and won on 12 June,…
Atrocities against Tharu expressed in art
Lavkant ChaudharyAs they enter Lavkant Chaudhary’s Masinya Dastoor exhibition at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, the visitors are strongly drawn to…
“It is now or never to devolve power to local governments”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOLeRbQqWwSwiss Ambassador Elisabeth von Capeller Oswald is on her second diplomatic stint in Nepal after also…
Patriarchy in an oligarchy
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINepal’s 2016 Constitution may be seen as the preeminent in the world by its framers, but there are still some…
#BalanceforBetter
Journalists and activists including Namrata Sharma met in Jakarta recently to discuss gender discrimination.“My alcoholic father used to beat me…
It's a rich man's world
Diwakar ChettriNepal’s Maoists fought a decade-long war for equality and inclusion. They have been in power off and on for the past 13 years…
Nothing to lose but their chains
https://youtu.be/W4CZxpM1mrITen years after the government finally abolished bonded debt labour, tens of thousands of Haliyas in western Nepal…
Life and livelihood in remote Nepal
A villager in Maspur, Humla weaves a doko basket from strips of bamboo.“Jai grihasthi” is a greeting heard often in the Far West and Karnali…
Once upon a time
After staging plays by foreign writers, Mandala Theatre has forayed into an original Nepali folktale, with a sharp contemporary socio-political…
Women conservationists brave discrimination, and the wild
Female environmentalists struggle against gender stereotypes as they work to save Nepal’s nature Mukesh Pokhrel in Himal Khabarpatrika 13-19…