New children's regulation seeks to promote child rights The Children’s Regulation, 2022, issued by the federal government last week to replace the 1995 regulation allows children to open and run children’s club or association for the protection and promotion of child rights. Nepal 08 Jun, 2022
Social activists stress on ending child marriage Social activists have stressed on the need to end social ill-practices as child marriage and chhaupadi customs Kathmandu 31 May, 2022
EDITORIAL - Abide by the code With the local elections scheduled for Friday, May 13, the silence period has commenced, effective from Tuesday midnight. Accordingly, the political parties and candidates cannot carry out any promotional activities on Wednesday and Thursday. Opinion 11 May, 2022
EDITORIAL - Final list for polls Out of the 153,000 candidates who had filed their nomination papers for various positions for the upcoming May 13 civic polls, as many as 8,000 withdrew their candidacies on Saturday as per instructions from their respective parties and local level political equation. Opinion 02 May, 2022
Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended-a global crisis, says new UNFPA report Nearly half of all pregnancies, totalling 121 million each year throughout the world, are unintended. For the women and girls affected, the most life-altering reproductive choice-whether or not to become pregnant-is no choice at all, according to the State of World Population 2022 report released on Wednesday. Health 30 Mar, 2022
Women's empowerment today: For a sustainable tomorrow As the world continues to battle and recover from the ongoing COV- ID-19 pandemic, and governments look to institute policies to build back better and greener, we are at the same time affected by another global crisis — climate change — and the impact it has on women’s health, rights and equality. Opinion 08 Mar, 2022
Child marriage unabated, thanks to ignorance of legal provisions The practice of child marriage is still prevalent in Dhanusha district though the laws bars marriage before 20 years of age. Nepal 04 Mar, 2022
Uterus prolapse still a taboo for many Bajura women It has been three years since Belu Edi, 45, of Badimalika Municipality-8 started suffering from pain in her lower abdomen. For two years, she didn’t tell anyone about her condition, but she had to tell her family, as her condition went from bad to worse. Nepal 26 Feb, 2022
Speakers concerned about non-implementation of law Speakers at a programme in Pokhara have expressed concern about non-implementation of the constitutional system, which they argued, resulted in the increasing number of human rights violations. Nepal 18 Feb, 2022
Gender-based discrimination unabated in Nepal, says NHRC Although the promotion of women’s rights has witnessed significant progress in legal and policy terms, gender-based discrimination still persists in practice, warns the National Human Rights Commission. Nepal 14 Feb, 2022
Model social inclusion policy for local levels The federal government has developed model ‘Social Inclusion Policy, 2022’ for local levels in a bid to build an equitable and prosperous society through social inclusion system. Nepal 23 Jan, 2022
Rights violation of women, children worrisome The situation of women’s and girls’ human rights was worrisome during 2021, but the authorities did not pay heed to address this issue, says the New-York based Human Rights Watch in the World Report, 2022. Nepal 16 Jan, 2022
