BHARDEV, Nepal, Aug 25 (Reuters) - In a village a little over an hour's drive from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, six women wearing yellow rubber gloves and surgical masks work in a shed, gently ...

Growing up in a traditional Hindu family in an eastern Nepal village, Durga Shrestha never thought that one day she would become a Catholic nun and work for the welfare of her country’s poor. The ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Sunita Kumari Chaudhary quietly weaves together lengths of rope, binding them with grass collected from the riverbank in her village of Dang. She skillfully shapes the materials ...

Kathmandu, Nov. 27 -- Nirvana Bhandary is a Nepali feminist writer, independent filmmaker, and digital activist. She founded the feminist storytelling platform The Feminism Project. She also wrote and ...

Until she was 48, Eka Kumari Karki had never travelled alone. Then she heard of a unique project that is trying to encourage and empower women by giving them travel grants. Karki got her daughter to ...

Nepal, June 27 -- Rama (name changed) left her home in 2012 to work as a domestic worker in Kuwait. She migrated to support her family. For years, she sent regular remittances and assured her mother ...

Climate change impacts all of us, but this burden is not evenly spread out. Our experiences, our privileges, our support systems, our ability to cope – these dictate how the very real consequences of ...

Nepal’s second deadly wave of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown have severely affected many citizens throughout the small South Asian country. Historically marginalized groups including single women – ...

A controversial proposal to require women to get permission to travel abroad has reignited a debate on patriarchy in Nepal. The Nepali Department of Immigration caused a major uproar when it proposed ...