Nepal

Humanitarian crisis, women and health: A perspective from Nepal

A humanitarian crisis situation has different impacts at the individual and community level and is also differently experienced by different…

By Pabitra Neupane
June 1, 2020
Humanitarian crisis, women and health: A perspective from Nepal
Early ‘Love Marriage’ and the Big, Bad Internet
Its an image of keyboard's control key.

In fact, the Internet actually allows adolescents access to a wide range of information including on sexual health. A 2015 study by Marie Stopes International[2] (an organisation that provides contraception and safe abortion services) found that the main source of information on sexual health among adolescents is the Internet.

By Shubha Kayastha and Indu Nepal
June 1, 2017
Early ‘Love Marriage’ and the Big, Bad Internet
Rootless
Nepal Marriage

By birth a woman belongs to her father’s clan, and then she gets given to her husband’s. We forget who our mothers and grandmothers are. Their blood does not flow in our lineage

By Curated Content
March 15, 2017
Rootless
We Need More Sexuality Education in Nepal
Photo of a young man as a school teacher in a classroom of little Nepalese children. He is thumbing through a picture book.

There has been so much discourse about sex and sexuality education all over the world that I perhaps may not…

By Kamal Gautam
December 16, 2016
We Need More Sexuality Education in Nepal
Voices: Nepal, are you still my home?
Nepalese women on a protest march. They are carrying a poster that reads in Hindi, "Women Against Violence Day". They are wearing white caps, and holding placards.

Nepal has been occupying the news headlines for the last few months, either due to the devastating earthquake that killed…

By Shubha Kayastha
September 1, 2015
Voices: Nepal, are you still my home?
Safe Abortion In Nepal
A poster for abortion rights in Nepal, showing a woman sitting with her legs pulled close to her chest. There is abortion-related information written beside her in hindi.

Whenever I represent Nepal as a youth delegate in any conference or workshop, I always share the great achievement Nepal’s government made in women’s health, i.e. legalising abortion. For many years, women in Nepal had experienced strictest abortion laws in the world.

By Curated Content
April 10, 2014
Safe Abortion In Nepal