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RIGHTS-NEPAL: Court Ruling Emboldens Third Gender
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - Suman Tamang, 26, remembers feeling guilty for wishing he were a man. Tamang, born a woman, wanted to do the heavy work only men do, was friends with more men than women and was attracted to girls. "At that time, I didn’t really understand I was transgender, I was awkward and I knew I was different."
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NEPAL: A Small Victory for Nepali Women
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - Representatives from the Madhesis, Janajatis, Dalits and other indigenous groups were present when Nepal’s newly elected constituent assembly sat for its very first meeting late last month, and 191 of the 601-member assembly were women.
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NEPAL: Education Far More than ABCs - Experts
By Lynette Lee Corporal
KATHMANDU - Far more than just the learning of ABCs and 123s, education should be playing a transformative role in children’s lives if it is to ensure them a better and more ‘equal’ and gender-responsive future.
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NEPAL: Gender Inequality in Education Has Deep Roots
By Lynette Lee Corporal
KATHMANDU - A shortage of female teachers, lack of proper training, inadequate delivery of services and indifferent attitudes combine to add to gender inequality in education in this small Himalayan nation.
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NEPAL: Living In a Republic
By Mallika Aryal
LELE - A week after Nepal was declared a republic, in the small sleepy town of Lele, some 30 km away from the capital Kathmandu, Dhurba Kumar Sunar, 41, goes about his day like any other.
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RIGHTS-NEPAL: No Reconciliation Without Truth
By Mallika Aryal
DHADING - Five years ago Ruku Acharya’s family was woken up in the middle of the night by Nepal army soldiers. They wrapped her husband Ram Prasad Acharya in a blanket and dragged him out of the house in Naubise, some 40 km from Kathmandu. He has not been seen since.
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NEPAL: Poor Planning Behind Rising Food Prices
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - As the sole breadwinner in a family of five, Maya Tamang watches her food budget carefully. And she can vouch best for the way many items are steadily disappearing from the table as food prices spiral steadily.
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POLITICS-SOUTH ASIA: Dealing With Nepal's Himalayan Shift
Analysis by Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI - After greatly surprising the world through its spectacular victory in direct first-past-the-post elections to the country’s new constituent assembly, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) now appears likely to perform far better than expected in the proportional representation (PR) component of the house too.
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POLITICS-NEPAL: Maoists Armed With Popular Vote
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - Proving the political pundits wrong, the people of Nepal have voted overwhelmingly for former rebels, the Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist (CPN-M), in the just concluded constituent assembly elections in this Himalayan nation.
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NEPAL: Tibetans Warned of Deportation to China
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - When King Gyanendra staged his military-backed coup in February 2005, Nepal’s political parties -- including the then outlawed Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) -- formed an alliance that successfully opposed the monarch's assault on civil liberties.
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POLITICS-NEPAL: Plains People's Demands Cast Shadow on Polls
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - While Apr. 10 has been set as the day on which Nepalis will elect a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution, violent protests by plains people demanding regional autonomy threaten the thrice-postponed polls.
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POLITICS-NEPAL: Monarchy's Fate Sealed, Maoists to Rejoin Gov't
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - Having negotiated an agreement for the formal abolition of the 240-year-old monarchy, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is now set to rejoin the government.
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POLITICS-NEPAL: End of Road for Nepal's Monarchy?
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - A republican wave that swept King Gyanendra out of power last year continues to blow strongly through Nepal.
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Nepal marks the end of a 240-year monarchy and the birth of the republic. Deposed King Gyanendra quit the palace on June 11, 2008, leaving the Nepali people with new questions: Will the new leaders deliver on their promises? Will the poor see their lives improve? Will Nepal be a truly independent, sovereign and inclusive democratic republic?.