No turning back: A pivotal moment for women and girls in Asia-Pacific Thirty years ago, the world made a promise: gender equality for all. Opinion 07 Mar, 2025
Kathmandu to host Beijing+30 National Women's Conference on August 16 Nepal is set to mark the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, which took place in Beijing, China, from September 4-15, 1995. Kathmandu 15 Aug, 2024
'Issues of women, children on top priority' Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Bhagbati Chaudhary has said the government of Nepal has been carrying out activities keeping the issues of women and children on top priority. Kathmandu 19 Mar, 2024
'Nepal aspires to create inclusive, just, equitable society' Minister of Women, Children, and Senior Citizens Julie Kumari Mahato has said women’s full and effective participation in public life and decision-making process underpins Nepal’s development aspirations to create an inclusive, just, and equitable society. Nepal 25 Mar, 2021
Kamala Harris to make UN debut as US vice president at gender equality meeting Kamala Harris is due to make her United Nations debut as US vice president next week when she addresses an annual United Nations meeting on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. World 09 Mar, 2021
25 years after UN women's meeting, equality remains distant UNITED NATIONS: Twenty-five years ago, the world’s nations came together to make sure that half of Earth's population gained the rights, power and status of the other half. It hasn't happened yet. And it won't anytime soon. In today's more... Women 01 Oct, 2020
Govt approves concept paper on money laundering report for submission to APG Kathmandu, February 27 The government has decided to approve a concept paper related to preparation of mutual evaluation report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism for submission to Asia/Pacific Group of Money Laundering.... Horoscopes 28 Feb, 2020
President Bhandari holds high-level meetings KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari who is in New York of the United States in the course of attending the 63rd session of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW-63) was busy holding high-level meetings on Tuesday. In this... Travel 13 Mar, 2019
President in New York to participate in CSW session KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari reached New York of the United States on Monday to attend the 63rd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, leading a Nepali delegation. In the evening of March 11, President Bhandari... Travel 12 Mar, 2019
Head of UN Women: Technology revolution must benefit women UNITED NATIONS: The head of the UN women's agency is calling for the revolution in technology to be used to benefit the world's poor, and especially women, who will not achieve gender equality without "the giant leap that 21st-century innovations... Women 11 Mar, 2019
Prez flying off to New York on March 10 Kathmandu, March 5 President Bidhya Devi Bhandari is visiting New York on March 10 leading a Nepali delegation to the High Level Segment on Women in Power being organised by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Bhandari is... Horoscopes 06 Mar, 2019
Boko Haram survivors say fresh clothes help with fresh start NEW YORK: Sometimes, a change of clothes can make all the difference. For young women who have survived kidnappings and rapes by Boko Haram in Nigeria, fresh clothing is critical to helping shed their status as victims and resume normal lives,... Women 14 Mar, 2018
