Suddenly, there are cracks in the arranged marriage of the NC-UML coalition
Devi Sunar and her adopted daughter Maina in front of the picture of Devi’s late daughter Maina who was only 14 when she was tortured and killed…
Image from a series by Chinese photographer Guligo Jia’s exhibition of ‘reunions’ of people with family members they lost in the war projected…
As Nepal marks 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, Ruby Khan makes an impassioned plea for justice from her sit-in near Singha Darbar.
In recent years, rape survivors and victims of sexual abuse in Nepal have increasingly gone public with their experience and many are choosing…
Photo: KANAK MANI DIXIT/TWITTERA mother who is on the 25th day of a hunger strike in Kathmandu demanding justice against the murderers of her…
Representatives of the civil society staging demonstration at Maitighar Mandala, Kathmandu. Photo: NEPALI TIMES/ARCHIVEAmidst growing concerns…
When a Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended a ten-year war between the Nepal government and the erstwhile Maoist rebels in 2006, both sides…
Nepal has been elected to a second term on the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva despite opposition from activists who have…
This reality show is as real as it gets, and we better get new systems in place
Since Nepali Times was established almost 20 years ago, we have covered everything from the royal massacre to the impact of the climate crisis…
Shanta Chaudhary.Shanta Chaudhary’s journey from kamlari to Member of Parliament has been a long and difficult one. The harrowing details of her…
Nagarik, 10 February 2020Tilak Ram Nepali was among the 600 teachers who were killed or disappeared during the conflict. He was abducted on 10…
Photo : BIKRAM RAIRama married Raju of Lalitpur, after which Raju moved to Sydney to pursue higher education. The couple talked regularly over…
A scene from students' protest in Kathmandu following the death of Dilip Mahato. Photo: BIKRAM RAI This week, in a crime that shocked the…
EXHUMING ACCOUNTABILITY: Baburam Tamang, Maoist activist, one of the 21 killed execution-style by the army in Doramba in August, 2003.South…
Rautahat MP Mohammad Aftab Alam, currently in police custody charged with murder, has refused to take a polygraph test, angering the police and…
Subhas RaiFour global human rights bodies took the unusual step Monday of issuing a joint statement condemning the Nepal Government’s inaction…
The organisational infrastructure of the court system is of critical importance for the success of Nepal’s new constitutional order. It is in…
Photo: HIMALKHABAR.COMWhile the Government of Nepal is taking pains to polish its human rights image internationally, its actions at home belie…
Diwakar ChettriWhile a debate about equal citizenship rights for women raged in Parliament this week, single women who survived the earthquake…
At International Alert, as a global peacebuilding organisation, we often point to Nepal alongside South Africa or Northern Ireland as a country…
Dharna at Mahendranagar in front of CDO office, Nirmala Panta's step-mother, Laxmi, at center.Six months after the unsolved rape and murder of…
