sexual-abuse

Justice eludes many rape survivors

In recent years, rape survivors and victims of sexual abuse in Nepal have increasingly gone public with their experience and many are choosing to...

No direction

I try to write it and rewrite it, so that I can tell myself it was not my fault.

Pratibha Tuladhar

Lockdown and the surge in domestic violence

Popular singer and songwriter Samriddhi Rai tweeted this at 4:05 in the morning of Thursday March 26. With the surge in COVID-19 cases around...

Mahara acquitted

Former Speaker of the Nepal Parliament Krishna Bahadur Mahara was acquitted by the Kathmandu District Court of case in which he was accused...

Trafficked Nepali woman’s testimony

I used to live with my father and stepmother, and never knew who my real mother was. Since my father was poor,...

Using numbers to fight gender-based violence

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls on 25 November, let us pledge to help end gender-based violence.

The mental scars of violence

Children sit in a circle experimenting with different colours on palettes at a shelter in Godavari one morning this week. Some design...

The rise and fall of Comrade Mahara

Wearing a plain white polo shirt and a hint of a smile, former House Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara walked out of Norvic...

Plot thickens in Nepal Speaker rape case

The on-again, off-again saga of the rape allegation against the Speaker of Nepal’s Parliament took on a new twist after the victim lodged a...

Crime and politics

Six months after the unsolved rape and murder of her daughter, the stress is beginning to show on Durga Devi Panta. Her...