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Forced Prostitution of Badi Girls: Laws Prohibit, Practice Continues
Forced Prostitution of Badi Girls: Laws Prohibit, Practice Continues Relatives and parents involved in the forced prostitution of Badi girls should have been subject to harsher punishment according to the law.
Are Badi in Nepal Robbed of Their Identity and Existence?
Are Badi in Nepal Robbed of Their Identity and Existence? In 2006, Badi people launched a historic movement with women taking to the streets in petticoats to demand their socio-economic rights.
Probing for Probe’s Sake: Aircraft Accident Investigations in Nepal
Probing for Probe’s Sake: Aircraft Accident Investigations in Nepal None of the recommendations of the aircraft accident investigation commissions are implemented while cases of plane crashes are increasing with troubling frequency in Nepal.
Trafficking in Persons: How Nepali Women and Girls Are Trafficked to India to Perform in Orchestras
Trafficking in Persons: How Nepali Women and Girls Are Trafficked to India to Perform in Orchestras Orchestras are performed not only in cities across along the India border but also in rural areas of India. In those orchestras, often staged during weddings and cultural ceremonies, women are forced to wear short and revealing clothes and perform sensual dances.
Silent Killer: How Bullying at School is Killing Nepali Children
Silent Killer: How Bullying at School is Killing Nepali Children Child protection measures are absent in school settings although it is provisioned in the law. This is the reason the cases of children committing, or attempting to commit suicide, are reported now and then.
Young Badi Girls Trafficked Into Prostitution
Young Badi Girls Trafficked Into Prostitution Badi girls are more prone to be pushed towards prostitution and sex trafficking at a young age. The situation is even worse when they are coerced, trafficked, or sold by their family members.
Behind the Locked Doors: Dark Secrets of Spas in Pokhara
Behind the Locked Doors: Dark Secrets of Spas in Pokhara Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act 2007 defines the act of involving people in prostitution, for the purpose of gains or without, as an act of human trafficking. Some women who spoke to us admitted having sexual intercourse with the customers out of compulsion.
Passage to India: How Nepali Children Are Smuggled to Monasteries Across the Border to the South
Passage to India: How Nepali Children Are Smuggled to Monasteries Across the Border to the South In total, 18 boys from Marin, including Rajkumar, Mingmar, and Man Bahadur, were taken to India through the Malangwa border checkpoint in Sarlahi in Jestha, 2076 (June, 2019). Their own parents helped them cross the border.
When the Vehicle Carrying the Dead Body Stopped in the Middle...
When the Vehicle Carrying the Dead Body Stopped in the Middle... In case of the death of a migrant worker with a work permit, the Foreign Employment Board arranges a vehicle to take the dead body home. The board claims that four-wheel vehicles are used in transporting the body, the information that we got using the right to information did not find any four-wheel vehicles in use.
Santa's Unfulfilled Dream
Santa's Unfulfilled Dream Santa Bahadur, who was from Dharche-3 of Gorkha, had left home for greener pastures in Malaysia on the eve of Dashain with the dream of educating and bringing up his children in the best manner possible. However, less than three months later, on December 28, 2022 (Poush 13, 2079), he met with a car accident and died.
Despite laws in place, justice still out of reach for Dalits in Nepal
Despite laws in place, justice still out of reach for Dalits in Nepal As discrimination and deaths continue, experts say law needs amendment to lift the burden of proof off victims.
Covid-19 Nepal: Patients with chronic non-communicable diseases left in the lurch
Covid-19 Nepal: Patients with chronic non-communicable diseases left in the lurch
Covid-19 Nepal: Donor-dependent govt keeps patients at the mercy of unchecked machines
Covid-19 Nepal: Donor-dependent govt keeps patients at the mercy of unchecked machines Nepal’s public health bureaucrats do not bother to scrutinise medical equipment, including ventilators, received from international donors as grant support for the Covid-19 response in terms of quality assurance, putting patients’ lives at the mercy of these unchecked machines.
How COVID-19 became a poaching epidemic for Nepal’s endangered wildlife
How COVID-19 became a poaching epidemic for Nepal’s endangered wildlife The lengthy nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus led to a sharp rise in wildlife crimes.