Despite years of activism and legal restriction, the deeply-rooted Chhaupadi tradition-where menstruating women and ...

Massive glacial bursts are becoming more frequent and more dangerous due to the climate crisis, experts tell Mukesh Pokhrel, ...

I thought I’d seen it all in Southeast Asia—tree rats, Komodo dragons, detergent-eating monkeys. Then I landed in Nepal, and everything changed.

Contrast media coverage of deaths of new mothers with those of women and girls practising chhaupadi in far western Nepal. Temporarily exiled from their homes during menstruation or after giving birth, ...

A 28-year-old woman died after being bitten by a snake while staying in a menstrual shed in Kanchanpur district. According to ...

Radha Wagle, Nepal’s first woman Joint-Secretary and Chief at the REDD Implementation Centre under the Ministry of Forests and Environment, is working to make the forestry sector more inclusive for ...

Following the devastating earthquakes in spring 2015, Fehr volunteered with Women for Human Rights Nepal (WHR), an non-governmental organization (NGO) helping single Nepali women—including widows and ...

Nearly 40% of women in Far-western Nepal were found in a survey to be anaemic — most of them pregnant and breastfeeding. The government has put up posters in rural hospitals to encourage contraceptive ...

It understands that promoting respect for women and girls is a key factor in reducing the number of sexual and gender-based violence incidents in the camps, in addition to bringing the perpetrators to ...