KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 25

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli extended his best wishes that may the '16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence' make significant contributions towards building a civilized and violence-free society.

In a message of best wishes on the occasion of the commencement of the campaign today, PM Oli highlighted the need of putting collective efforts for a civilized society.

Prime Minister Oli stated that joint efforts should be made to advance our efforts on the path of prosperity, equality, civilization, justice.

'We can build a peaceful, civilized and humane society through the path of cooperation and mutual respect', the message reads.

He also wished that the campaign may inspire everyone to build a humane society. 'For today, gender-based violence has presented a big question mark on our consciousness, civilization, behavior. Gender discrimination and violence are a blot on us', reads the message, adding, 'The society we want should be a just society, a civilized society, an advanced society, a cultured society. It is also well stated in our scriptures'.

He went on saying, 'This is a common campaign of all of us, it is necessary to take this common campaign forward through the joint efforts'.

From the age of slavery, which considers a man as a machine, the feudal era of women as a commodity, we have now entered the modern, equitable, peaceful era in a conscious, normative, constitutional, legal and practical way and our efforts are on to make it more advanced, the PM noted.

In the message, the Prime Minister said that he has established the national aspiration of 'Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali' and wants to achieve prosperity through the path of good governance and development in the country.

'We are moving ahead on the path of building a society with just society, social justice and equality, reflecting these things and we have brought our policy programs accordingly', reads the message.-