By renaming a federal ministry to include ‘gender and sexual minorities,’ Nepal has made a historic symbolic shift. But citizenship, marriage and discrimination hurdles persist.

Nepal's Supreme Court banned egg extraction to stop the exploitation of young donors. The same order has left women like Padma—a cancer survivor whose ovaries were destroyed by chemotherapy—without options.

Nepal has tried the two-day weekend before—in 1990, in 1999, in 2022 and again now. Each time, it arrived as a crisis measure and left when the crisis faded.

As the Valley's riverbank settlement demolition displaced hundreds of families, the animals fell through every crack in the government's plan.

Nearly two decades after a landmark Supreme Court ruling made Nepal a global symbol of transgender rights, the home ministry has effectively suspended gender recognition for those seeking binary status.

For fifteen years, a handful of schools have supported children with autism with little government help.

As the ruling party bets on digital infrastructure to transform the economy, the communities that will host these facilities have no legal standing to object.

A generation of children is growing up in a city that has no designated place for them—hemmed in by construction, scolded out of lanes, and handed a phone in place of the space their bodies and minds need.

The harassment of women for public expression in Nepal is not a reaction to any single political wave. It is a pattern, and it has a history.

Once seen as a quiet alternative, court marriages are becoming first choice—driven by cost, convenience and changing ideas about what marriage should be.

The Nagarik App can verify identity in real time, but outdated laws and institutional inertia still force citizens to carry physical documents.

Many of them are hopeful about their future after Gen Z uprising and recent election results.

Thousands of women outside Nepal government’s records are confined by restrictive Kafala rules.

Around 150 participants, including women’s organisations and human right advocates, join a march in Kathmandu led by NAWHRD, calling out prejudices against women.

Women now serve on committees, assist in rituals, and play instruments, but they still cannot assume hereditary leadership duties.