Despite being part of the curriculum through grade 8, Comprehensive Sexuality Education is often reduced to a few chapters, hampered by limited teacher training, and dropped from the compulsory curriculum just as adolescents enter their teenage years.

While media groups and press freedom advocates have criticised the police action, others say the veteran journalist’s arrest is justified, pointing to a long record of publishing private and targeted content.

Nearly two decades after a landmark Supreme Court ruling advanced legal recognition of gender identity, Nepal’s menstrual health policies and services still largely exclude trans men.

Artists say their songs are being recreated with cloned voices and sold on digital platforms without permission, even as the technology quietly becomes the soundtrack of everyday life.

A student-led campaign changed the law, but has reignited debate over personal freedom, school discipline, and how far the state should regulate schools.

Fifty-one of 99 elected seats now held by women — but the party's own leaders say the harder battle is for power at the top, not just numbers.

The proposed close-in-age exemption may protect boys from rape charges over consensual relationships. Critics say it leaves untouched social conditions that make girls vulnerable.

Bhumika Shrestha was bullied out of school and once struggled to find words for her identity. Now she sits in Nepal’s federal Parliament, carrying decades of activism into the country's highest legislative body.

Despite regulations requiring parental consent, Nepali schools continue to have publicly accessible social media accounts filled with student photographs.

A debate over an all-male film pitch panel has reopened deeper questions about power, representation and who gets to shape women’s narratives.

Nepal’s gender budgeting system has become a paper exercise—reporting perfect compliance while failing to track whether programmes actually improve women’s lives.

Ministry receives Rs2.27 billion as budget expands support for Dalit children, persons with disabilities and marginalised groups amid implementation concerns.

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.