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NEPAL: Parliament Opens Doors to Maoists
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Former Maoist rebels entered the parliament that once outlawed them Monday, filling enough seats to become the second-largest party in the temporary government.
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SOUTH ASIA: India Abandons the Raj Approach to Neighbours
By Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI - India is fashioning a major shift in its relations with its smaller neighbours Bhutan and Nepal by revising bilateral treaties which embody asymmetry, inequality and imbalance.
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NEPAL: Women and Children Count too, in Maoist Camps
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - United Nations monitors will begin counting weapons and soldiers of the Maoist army in camps across Nepal next week, and activists are concerned that the needs of women and children there could be overlooked.
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NEPAL: Civil Society Protests Laggard Gov't
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Civil society activists who led the fight against the former royal regime are now risking jail to protest against the government they helped push to power.
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CHALLENGES 2006-2007: US - Last Stop for Bhutanese Refugees?
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Washington's offer to resettle most of the 106,000 Bhutanese refugees who have stagnated in camps in Nepal for 16 years has provoked a whirlwind of reaction that could finally sweep away official inertia toward their plight.
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CHALLENGES 2006-2007: A 'New Nepal' for All?
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Cycle and foot traffic will swell on the two-lane highway that runs through Nepal's 'tarai' (plains region) Dec. 25. Normally the road teems with buses that pack passengers onto their roofs and careen from stop to stop, speeding trucks with squealing brakes and a few personal cars. But the Nepal Sadhbhawana Party (NSP)has called a general strike on that day and motorised vehicles risk being attacked by mobs.
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POLITICS-NEPAL: Women Push for Space in Peace Plans
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Government and Maoist leaders holding high-level talks to finalise Nepal's interim constitution have discovered they have one thing in common: none of them can say that at least a third of their party workers are women.
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HEALTH-NEPAL: Mobile Camps Treat Uterine Prolapse
By Marty Logan
DADELDHURA - While women in the capital Kathmandu fight for representation on the political bodies designing the 'new Nepal', in the remote western region Bhakti Oli has just claimed her right to health care after more than 35 years.
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RIGHTS: Indigenous Declaration Still Powerful - UN Forum Chief
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - The United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will remain influential despite being sidelined by an arm of the UN General Assembly last week, predicts the chairperson of the world body's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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RIGHTS-NEPAL: Children Feared Bound for Maoist 'Peace' Camps
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Even before Maoist leaders could assign their soldiers to camps as part of the peace deal ending Nepal's 10-year insurgency, United Nations officials appeared on the doorstep Monday warning that children will not be allowed into the cantonments.
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NEPAL: Peace Delayed, Dying Continues
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Government and rebel leaders failed to sign an agreement Thursday to formally end a 10-year insurgency that killed up to 14,000 Nepalis, scarred the lives of tens of thousands more, and continues to claim victims.
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POLITICS-NEPAL: A Deal's Not Enough
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Since Monday, small groups of journalists and onlookers have stood for hours at a time on the roadside outside the Nepali prime minister's house waiting for word of a deal between the government and former Maoist rebels. But keeping a sitting vigil on the street, civil society leaders say a breakthrough will mean the hard work is just beginning.
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LABOUR-NEPAL: Workers' Friend or Foe?
By Marty Logan
KATHMANDU - Nepal's government says it is poised to give some protection to the majority of its workers who labour in the informal sector but a bill now circulating in government would remove some rights of employees in 'special economic zones'.
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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?.