MONUMENT — A local business is helping Nepalese women coming out of slavery. Lindsay Theken created her headband business HeadPeace back in 2016. She couldn't find the perfect one in the marketplace, ...

Nepal has a female president and a Constitution that reserves positions in government and legislatures to women, and in the foreign service women diplomats make up more than half the ranking staff.

KATHMANDU, Nepal -- As a child, Shanti Chaudhari was scolded by her parents for standing too close to a group of musicians playing the naumati baja, Nepal's nine traditional instruments, because they ...

The Nepali Department of Immigration caused a major uproar when it proposed a legal amendment this month requiring women under the age of 40 to seek approval from their families and local wards to ...

CU Boulder PhD candidate Tracy Fehr’s research examines the intersecting identities limiting Nepali women’s access to disaster relief funds following the devastating 2015 earthquakes The devastating ...

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As Nepal’s economy takes a nose dive due to the global pandemic and faces a looming unemployment crisis, what is often missing in the discourse are the special needs of women who depended on income ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of women’s right activists and their supporters rallied in Nepal’s capital on Friday to call for an end to violence and discrimination against women and the scrapping ...

Deepa Majhi opened a local eatery three months ago, near the Chandragiri Hills, a tourist site close to Nepal’s capital Kathmandu. For a passerby, it might appear to be a typical tea shop with a small ...

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 directed the ...