The taboo, stigma and restrictions associated with menstruation have been passed on to modern times.

While walking from village to village in Dailekh, I met Kamala (name changed), a married, adolescent girl.

The Open Defecation Free campaign sounds impressive, but little has changed on the ground

Nepal needs to take cue from Haiti and involve locals to make reconstruction efforts effective

Poverty alleviation programmes and the influx of remittance, are not eliminating poverty; they are simply creating new kinds of poor.

The roles of local women activists in the promotion of national peace building have gone largely unrecognised

Our ignorance and poverty is reflected in the restrictions we impose on women during their menstrual cycles