Sheridan artist Becki Butterfield visited Nepal in June to teach metalsmithing and jewelry making to women affected by human ...

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, ...

Nepali women unnecessarily lose their lives in the name of traditions. The most notorious of these is Chhaupadi, a deeply entrenched tradition in western Nepal that forces menstruating women to live ...

Women now occupy over 41 percent of local level offices. ... In these five years, we have gained invaluable experience,” said Prabha Baral, a woman mayor of Rapti Municipality in western Nepal.

Deaths prompt Nepal to offer cash to women who shun 'menstrual huts' ... 14, sits inside a Chaupadi shed in the hills of Legudsen village in Achham District in western Nepal February 16, 2014.

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 ...

Although farmers traditionally practiced agroforestry in Nepal, they gave it up with the advent of the green revolution. A women’s group in Kavre district decided to return to agroforestry four ...

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 ...

Blogdai is a little annoyed with the portrayal of Nepal in the western media. “he lazy Western media has never once waivered from their “we don't care what happens in Nepal, as long as they call it ...