Muslim women issues neglected in CEDAW report During national consultation on the draft report to the 90th session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee here today, it was highlighted that Muslim women's issues were excluded from the CEDAW report. Nepal 06 Dec, 2024
Dr. Alvaro Bermejo, IPPF's Director General visits Nepal to discuss critical Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights issues Dr. Alvaro Bermejo, IPPF’s Director General visits Nepal to discuss critical Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights issues Nepal 01 May, 2023
Decrminalise abortion: Rights activists Article 38(2) of the constitution ensures the right of every woman to safe motherhood and reproductive health thereby acknowledging the right to safe abortion as part of reproductive health right, but in practice, women have not been able to enjoy this right, due to criminalisation of abortion and a number of restrictive measures. Sports 19 Mar, 2023
Reversal of Roe vs Wade decision condemned The Reproductive Health Rights Working Group, a network of 19 non-governmental organisations working in reproductive health rights, have condemned the US Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe versus Wade verdict that guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion for women. Nepal 01 Jul, 2022
Nepal struggles with high adolescent fertility rate KATHMANDU, JUNE 24Fertility rate among adolescents is found to be high in Nepal.According to the Child Welfare Division, fertility rate among adolescents (15-19 age group) is 63 per cent.At an interaction on 'Family planning and reproductive... Nepal 25 Jun, 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
Decriminalise abortion, say women rights activists ​​​​​​​Women’s rights activists have underlined the need to decriminalise abortion. Nepal 10 Mar, 2022
Call to provide reproductive rights services to women ​​​​​​​Women rights activists have said that Nepal needs to invest adequate resources to provide safe abortion services and other reproductive rights services to women. Nepal 07 Mar, 2022
26-year-old Bajura woman struggling for life after unsafe abortion Twenty-six-year-old Kali Thapa of Badimalika Municipality, Bajura, has been battling for life because of unsafe abortion. Having taken medicine for abortion from a medical shop in the district headquarters, Martadi, she has been struggling for life in Seti Zonal Hospital for want of blood. Nepal 22 Jan, 2022
Pandemic taking toll on reproductive health COVID-19 is taking its toll on sexual and reproductive health in the country. Nepal 27 Dec, 2021
EDITORIAL: Reproductive rights The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic since the past one-and-a-half years has particularly affected women and girls from enjoying their reproductive rights as the entire health system of the country has been overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. Opinion 15 Jul, 2021
Reproductive rights of women, young people must be protected, says UNFPA Although the full picture of the impact of COVID-19 on the reproductive rights of women and girls in Nepal is still unclear, it is anticipated that there has been significant increase in unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and preventable maternal deaths during the peaks of the pandemic, according to the United Nations Population Fund. Nepal 14 Jul, 2021
