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POLITICS-NEPAL: Women Push for Gender Equality in New Constitution
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - A political crisis, which has dragged on for months, crippling progress in drafting a new constitution for Nepal by the Constituent Assembly (CA) has considerably dampened the euphoria of women's organisations here.
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NEPAL: Third Gender Assert Rights
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - Two years ago, 23-year-old Bhakti Shah, a cadet in the Nepal Army, was dismissed because she was seen to spend most of her free time with a fellow female cadet.
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HEALTH-NEPAL: Baby Boom in Maoist Army
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - At the annual military parade of the People’s Liberation Army, Nepal’s ex-guerrillas, curious bystanders saw a young woman clad in military fatigues kiss and cuddle a baby before handing her back to an older woman.
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NEPAL: People's Voices: Reflecting on the Republic
By Mallika Aryal
Gorkha Bajar, NEPAL - Maoist hammer and sickle graffiti from last year's constituent assembly (CA) election is still fresh on the walls all around Gorkha Bajar. This historic town, some 150 km west of the capital Kathmandu, used to be a Maoist stronghold during the 'peoples war' from 1996-2006.
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NEPAL: Displaced Choose Urban Homelessness Over Rural Insecurity
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - Bishnu Maya Dahal, 51, dreams of going back to her village in eastern Nepal.
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DEVELOPMENT-NEPAL: Women Everesters Talk Gender Equality
By Keya Acharya
KATHMANDU - Seven young women have started a seemingly commonplace programme of video presentations at schools in this mountainous Himalayan country. The programme’s contents however are unique.
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RIGHTS-NEPAL: Law on Disappearances Provokes Outcry
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - Despite loud opposition, the Maoist-led coalition government of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has vowed to push through an ordinance to resolve the cases of hundreds of people ‘disappeared’ during the decade-long people's war waged between Maoist rebels and the forces of the former monarchy.
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HEALTH-NEPAL: On Course to Achieve MDG on Maternal Health
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - Impoverished Nepal has dramatically reduced maternal mortality cases from 540 per 100,000 live births in 2001 to the present 280 - a feat experts attribute chiefly to the legalisation of abortion.
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NEPAL: Army-Rebel Integration Hangs Fire
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - Two years after Maoist fighters put aside their arms and agreed to place themselves in United Nations-monitored camps, the issue of integrating them into the regular Nepal army as part of a peace process hangs fire.
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RIGHTS-NEPAL: Maoists Attack Journos, Threaten Media Freedom
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - When Kunda Dixit, editor of the ‘Nepali Times’ and 12 other staff members of the Himalmedia publishing house were attacked and injured by supporters of Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M), a week ago, it was a sign that Nepal’s ruling party intends to influence the media through intimidation.
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DEVELOPMENT-NEPAL: Returning Power to Local Bodies is Critical
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - As members of Nepal’s newly-formed Constituent Assembly (CA) begin the process of a writing a new constitution for this former monarchy they will consider reviving devolution of power to local administrative bodies as the fastest way to ensure development.
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EDUCATION-NEPAL: Increasing Budget Not Enough to Meet Goals
By Renu Kshetry
HUMLA - While the new Maoist government has dramatically increased the outlay for education in the annual budget to meet the goal of Education for All (EFA) by 2015, a visit to remote, mountainous Limi village in mid-western Nepal shows that the goal will be hard to reach.
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NEPAL: Militarising or Demilitarising?
By Rita Manchanda
KATHMANDU - Fighting a decade long ‘People’s War’ for the revolutionary transformation of a feudal monarchy meant that the Maoists had to militarise Nepali society, including women and youth.
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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?.