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Caste Blocks Revamp of Nepal's Sex Workers
By Naresh Newar
MUDA, Nepal - Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy call for special efforts to uplift the Badi, a Hindu caste that has for centuries been associated with entertainment and prostitution.
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Millennium Goals Mock Nepal’s Slave Girls
By Naresh Newar
DANG, Nepal - Five years after Nepal abolished Kamalari, a system of girl slavery, thousands of young women are still awaiting promised rehabilitation and support from the new democratic republic.
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HIV Compounds Poverty in Nepal
By Naresh Newar
RAKAM KARNALI, Western Nepal - Life, already hard in Nepal’s remote western region, is getting worse thanks to HIV infection brought back by men who go to neighbouring India for seasonal work.
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Nepal's Rural Women Seek Justice
By Naresh Newar
DAILEKH, Nepal - Women in Nepal’s remote rural areas stood shoulder-to-shoulder with their men during the bloody 1996-2006 civil war that overthrew an oppressive monarchy, but many now battle domestic violence at home.
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NEPAL
Protests Fail to Stop Climate Loans
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Nepal will implement five projects with 110 million dollars sanctioned by the controversial Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), ignoring protestors who say this least developed country merits grants rather than climate loans.
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NEPAL
Praying Against Climate Change
By Sudeshna Sarkar*
KAVRE, Nepal - There are gasps from the audience as a series of shocking images flash across the screen: human hands eaten away by arsenic, the carcass of a cow so emaciated that it looks two-dimensional, a starved child with matchstick legs grasping at the udder of an animal for sustenance.
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NEPAL
Community Forestry Unfazed by Political Turmoil
By Keya Acharya
GODAVARI, Nepal - Nepal’s joint forest management system has taken such deep roots that the country’s prolonged political instability has had little effect on it.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Himalayan Nations Yet to Break the Ice
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Chungda Sherpa, a former herder from eastern Nepal, has a warning tale ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Durban.
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ENVIRONMENT
Nepali Women Live With Climate Terror
By Sudeshna Sarkar
CHARIKOT, Nepal - Suntali Shrestha wrings her hands in tension and despair as she recounts how she has been spending sleepless nights fearing that the flood alarm in her village would go off while she slept and she would be submerged.
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NEPAL
No Brakes on Sex Trafficking
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - While a Nepalese campaign to stop human trafficking gains recognition by the White House and Hollywood, Nepal continues to be a prime source for sex trafficking, thanks to unsettled conditions created by a protracted political crisis.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Nepali Women Sow a Secure Future
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Learning a lesson from crop failures attributed to climate change, Nepal’s women farmers are discarding imported hybrid seeds and husbanding hardier local varieties in cooperative seed banks.
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NEPAL
Fasting Against Corruption Spreads
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Inspired by Indian socialist leader Anna Hazare’s celebrated public fast against corruption in the Indian capital of New Delhi, starvation protests have sprung up in Nepal to press for a timely new constitution.
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NEPAL
Adapting to Climate Change Can be Simple
By Athar Parvaiz
KATHMANDU - Saraswoti Bhetwal’s terraced fields stand out in the sub-Himalayan Lamdihi village as a mosaic of shapes and colours formed by beans, bitter gourd, chilly, tomato, lady’s fingers and other crops.
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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?.