Despite many progressive laws for women in the new constitution, the provision of citizenship is unequal and fails to protect a woman’s natural and inalienable right to her child in conferring nationality to her/him autonomously and unconditionally;

Only through provision of basic services can the cycle of poverty be broken and the marginalised given a voice

At the root of sex-selective abortion lies the culture of preferring sons

Nepal is on the verge of making history with the first local election in 20 years that is taking place today. As many as 19,332 women are taking part in the polls being held under the federal set-up, and 5,196 among them are assured posts as per the Local Level Election Act 2017,

Education and modernisation haven’t weakened ingrained socio-sexual relationships

The rate of child marriage has dropped, and the average age for marriage has gone up

Nepali people desire to forge strong national unity above ethnic interests

All the parties involved in the current conflict need to rise to the occasion and think about the people first

By doing away with the ‘or’ provision on citizenship, the state is seeking to institute gender bias as a national policy

Society still sees the value of a woman through her ‘purity’ and ‘modesty’; this needs to change

It is promising that many husbands and wives are now seeking equality as active partners for progress