Tag Archives: Women

Sapana Pradhan Malla interview by NYT on women and trafficking

Fascinating. From Nepal, a Push to End Human Trafficking Human trafficking is one of the world’s fastest-growing crimes, the United Nations says, with nearly 21 million people falling victim each year. More than half of the victims of forced labor are from the … Continue reading

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Lesbians “allowed”; courts to decide where women live

This journalist has decided to label a court allowing two women to live together as a “liberal judgement” and completely ignoring the illiberality of a court even admitting a case which is formed on the basis that women’s living arrangements … Continue reading

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Banning women from working in the Gulf: protection or discrimination?

Protecting women or discriminating against women? Who in their right mind would want their friends, daughters, sisters or mothers to work in the Gulf, knowing the high rates of sexual harassment and low labour standards? But isn’t this just another … Continue reading

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Women farmers do 6x the work of men

‘[T]he UN Environment Programme noted that women performed six times the agriculture work that men do.’ NEPAL: Tailoring technology for female farmers Most of Nepal’s agriculture is undertaken by women, but research tailored to their needs is lacking. “We need … Continue reading

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Janakpur Women’s Development Centre

Not sure this is all it could have been… Letter from Nepal: old love story I was in Janakpur to collect a painting by Gangawati Das, a 45-year-old Maithili woman who works in the Janakpur Women’s Development Centre, an organisation set up in … Continue reading

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Tending someone else’s garden

Perhaps the target of this is wrong: making big cultural changes (with its links to virginity/purity) is difficult, but giving families clear benefits in continuing their new daughter-in-law’s education, is much easier. A real prominent issue in school-drop out rates. … Continue reading

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Guilty Nepalis in miniskirts

Watching Nepal change over the past decade has been like seeing the West throughout a century. NEPAL: Women demand end to sexual harassment KATHMANDU, 23 May 2012 (IRIN) – Sexual harassment is an everyday issue for women in Nepal, particularly … Continue reading

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CNN heroes reborn, this time: prisons

CNN heroes is building up again. Remember last year when Demi Moore – of course never a celebrity to promote the sexualisation of women herself – parachuted into a 5* hotel in Nepal for two days to tell the American … Continue reading

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Bel bibahar

I was always under the belief that the marriage of Newari girls to the bel fruit (bel bibaha) and later to the sun was to evade ‘sati’ should her husband die before her. Bel bibaha seems great fun and the … Continue reading

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Witchcraft and CEDAW

Witchcraft or bokshi – considered almost a joke in most parts of the world – remains a popular basis of belief in Nepal. Even amongst the so-called educated. Daily news reports women fed human excreta and others under unbearable social … Continue reading

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