Tag: #Rape
Articles tagged with #Rape
Celebrity rape case spotlights Nepal laws
For the past weeks, there is one news item that has overshadowed news of the MCC or Ukraine: allegations that Nepali actor and model Paul Shah…
Justice delayed, justice denied
Photo: Jan Møller HansenNearly an entire generation of Nepali youth has grown up following the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) that was signed…
Justice eludes many rape survivors
In recent years, rape survivors and victims of sexual abuse in Nepal have increasingly gone public with their experience and many are choosing…
Protesting to protect the right to protest
Photo: #ajhaikatisahaneOn 10 October 2020, the #ajhaikatisahane movement went viral on social media and gained attention like we were hoping it…
The human cost of Nepal’s political deadlock
When the coalition government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba took office in July, many had hoped it would restore stability after a…
Everyday as if it is Women’s Day
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIWhen the Immigration Department last month proposed travel restrictions for women under 40, Nepalis took to the streets…
End of war is not peace
Photo: NEPALI TIMES/ARCHIVESCommunist parties the world over are obsessed with anniversaries. October Revolution Day, Mao Zedong’s Birthday,…
Mahara acquitted
Ex-House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara with jubilant supporters on Monday outside the Kathmandu District Court which acquitted him on charges…
THE TWO - YEAR ITCH
Illustration : DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe Nepal Communist Party (NCP) government completes two years in power next month. Despite its strong majority,…
The mental scars of violence
Photos: SEWA BHATTARAIChildren sit in a circle experimenting with different colours on palettes at a shelter in Godavari one morning this week.…
The rise and fall of Comrade Mahara
Wearing a plain white polo shirt and a hint of a smile, former House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara walked out of Norvic Hospital on Tuesday…
Mahara arrested
TO JAIL: House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara who resigned last week after being accused of raping a staffer was arrested on Sunday evening from…
Court orders Mahara arrest
The Kathmandu District Court on Sunday ordered the arrest of former Speaker of the Nepal Parliament, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who resigned from…
Plot thickens in Nepal Speaker rape case
The on-again, off-again saga of the rape allegation against the Speaker of Nepal’s Parliament took on a new twist after the victim lodged a…
Nepal’s transition to peace needs justice
At International Alert, as a global peacebuilding organisation, we often point to Nepal alongside South Africa or Northern Ireland as a country…
Rape rulings in Nepal follow letter, not spirit of the law
Activists protest government's reluctance to solve the rape and murder of Nirmala Panta, a teenager whose body was found near her home in…
Crime and politics
Dharna at Mahendranagar in front of CDO office, Nirmala Panta's step-mother, Laxmi, at center.Six months after the unsolved rape and murder of…
Amrita Acharia in charity drive
Game of Thrones actress Amrita Acharia has joined the online appeal for funds for the charity ChoraChori that has rescued 147 trafficked and…
Daughter's rape drives father to insanity
When Durga Devi Panta poured her husband some water, he thanked her like she was a stranger, shook hands with her and asked the reporter to take…
Children and Crime
Rameswor Bohara in Himal Khabarpatrika,28 October – 11 NovemberDhanusha’s Sunita Devi Yadav was alarmed one October night to discover that her…
Octoberfest
Diwakar ChettriLike all festivals in whichever religion, Dasain probably has its origins in pre-historic harvest rituals. The rains are over,…
Daughter Slaughter
https://youtu.be/7NAkdUC4j7oIt was raining hard that Tuesday night on 11 September in Chandrapur of Rautahat. In the Das family home, teenage…
CORROSIVE CONDUCT
https://youtu.be/7NAkdUC4j7oThere is an argument that there has not been an abrupt rise in the number of rape cases in Nepal, it is just being…
Perpetuating patriarchy in Nepal
TWITTERThere is growing public outrage about the recent rise in reported rape cases across the country. The victims of these appalling crimes…