Rights recommendations must move beyond compensation
Compensation for 153 victims offers hope, but Nepal must act on its international commitments.
Compensation for 153 victims offers hope, but Nepal must act on its international commitments.
Stories from Nepal have become more common internationally in recent decades, although positive ones are rare.
A monitoring framework can count toilets built, but not whether people use them, they’re well located or work for women.
The party swiftly investigated the allegations against Sunar. Now it must deliver tangible results.
Recurring disasters in Nepal destroy crops, permanently erode farmland, displace families and worsen economic inequality.
The government must immediately secure clean water, enforce emergency sanitation and monitor emerging infections.
With 55 percent of provincial lawmakers having served as ministers, the provinces need to put governing ahead of oath-taking.
When a few hours’ notice can save lives, fragmented or missing cross-country information becomes dangerous.
Political parties’ historical contributions do not give them a license to control universities and student bodies.
Nepal should ramp up efforts to prevent further loss of life and livelihoods in downstream settlements.
From the 51,000-year-old Tsergo Ri collapse to the 2015 Langtang landslide, rockfalls are part of the Himalayan ecosystem, and global warming is making them more dangerous.
The Khula Manch offered a rare view of political leaders from different parties presenting their failed dreams and new ideas for the future.
What once was the biggest platform for international leaders has become an abandoned international arena today.
The new generation of NC leadership will restore lost political space and become the only alternative to the RSP.
Post-rehab despair and social rejection are pushing Nepali women back into drug addiction.
Humans and wildlife increasingly occupy the same landscape. One’s safety should not require another’s sacrifice.
From 1986 citizenship photos to ancestral land records, we treat data like a smartphone problem. It’s actually about who controls your story.
The state cannot use investigations to justify unrestricted access to phones and other devices.
Forensic data from over 2,000 autopsies show the 2019 restriction on three-gram tablets barely dented phosphine deaths. A full ban on all aluminium phosphide products is the next step.
If Nepal wants to leverage the private sector as a development partner, the conversation must go beyond ceremonial CSR.