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Inter Press Service Asia News
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HEALTH-NEPAL: Multiple Problems Mar Fight Against HIV/AIDS
To women who have lost their husbands to the killer AIDS disease, learning a
skill to earn a living could be a matter of life and death.
NEPAL: Peace Process Survives Scare But Road Ahead Still Bumpy
Nepal's three major political parties inked a compromise deal Friday, an hour
before the expiry of the Constituent Assembly's (CA's) tenure, and voted in
favor of a bill proposing extension of its term by a year, thus saving the
country's four-year-old peace process from breaking down.
MEDIA-NEPAL: Self-Censorship Creeping Up After Killings
The climate of fear that has been growing in this Himalayan country since the murder of two media entrepreneurs and other attacks on journalists may well push them to turn to more self-censorship.
POLITICS-NEPAL: Parties at Odds, Peace at Risk
Nepal's walk to peace from a decade-long, Maoist-led bloody insurgency that ended four years ago could take longer than expected.
NEPAL: Witch Tag Only on Dalits, Minorities
Just 40 kms away from the capital Kathmandu, in Thasingtole, Lalitpur District, Kalli Kumari B.K., 46, a local Dalit woman, was mercilessly beaten up. She was accused of being a 'witch', imprisoned in a shed and forced to eat her own excreta
NEPAL: Widows Break Tradition - Wear Red
Bhagwati Adhikari was a teenager when she was married off to a village boy of the same caste. Just a few years later when she was in her early 20s, she became a widow. Her husband, who worked as a security guard in Kathmandu, was murdered. Adhikari was left alone to support her family.
POLITICS-NEPAL: Women Push for Gender Equality in New Constitution
A political crisis, which has dragged on for months, crippling progress in drafting a new constitution for Nepal by the Constituent Assembly (CA) has considerably dampened the euphoria of women's organisations here.
NEPAL: Third Gender Assert Rights
Two years ago, 23-year-old Bhakti Shah, a cadet in the Nepal Army, was dismissed because she was seen to spend most of her free time with a fellow female cadet.
HEALTH-NEPAL: Baby Boom in Maoist Army
At the annual military parade of the People's Liberation Army, Nepal's ex-guerrillas, curious bystanders saw a young woman clad in military fatigues kiss and cuddle a baby before handing her back to an older woman.
NEPAL: People's Voices: Reflecting on the Republic
Maoist hammer and sickle graffiti from last year's constituent assembly (CA) election is still fresh on the walls all around Gorkha Bajar. This historic town, some 150 km west of the capital Kathmandu, used to be a Maoist stronghold during the 'peoples war' from 1996-2006.
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