Single women’s plight

KATHMANDU: Speakers at the programme on Thursday asked the government to ensure social, political and economic rights of single women. Lily Thapa, executive director of Women Human Rights (WHR), highlighted the plight of single women, specially those affected by conflict. She said there were around 40,000 conflict-hit widows in 52 districts and 35.7 per cent of them were between the age of 25 and 30. She said they were facing traumas and they were vulnerable as well as unaware of their rights. — HNS

Big parties flayed

BHAKTAPUR: Prem Suwal, chief of the foreign department of the Nepal Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (NWPP), on Thursday said the martyrs’ dreams were being shattered in the country as the big political parties were giving protection to the persons who were guilty of suppressing the popular movements in the past. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the 59th National Democracy Day organised by the Nepal Revolutionary Farmers’ Association in Bhaktapur, he said that martyrs’ dream could be realised only if the economic status of the working class people was upgraded. — HNS