On midnight 16 February 2002, on the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the insurgency, the Maoists launched the biggest attack till then…
Trials and tribulations of the job while learning the language myself
Global geopolitical changes and the rise of China means the West has gone cold on transitional justice and its humanitarian agenda
Nagma Mali holding a picture of her father Nandagopal Mali. Photo: BIKKIL STHAPIT/ VOICES OF WOMEN MEDIAOn 22 June 2004, Nandagopal Mali left…
This week it will be 26 years since the Maoists took up arms against the state, and 16 years since the war ended. Sher Bahadur Deuba was prime…
As harvests fail due to drought and floods, girls from marginalised families are forced to marry earlier to escape poverty
The letter Kiran Chaudhary got last year from the NHRC informing her about compensation for torture and rape by the security forces during the…
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…
When a Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended a ten-year war between the Nepal government and the erstwhile Maoist rebels in 2006, both sides…
14 years and 11 prime ministers later Text and photographs by Bikkil SthapitMany of the over 1,300 people still listed as missing after the…
A villager in Maspur, Humla weaves a doko basket from strips of bamboo.“Jai grihasthi” is a greeting heard often in the Far West and Karnali…
Image: Romeo JerichoEven though it is a country with a liberal constitution and vibrant civil society which struggled long and hard against…
