By Joyce Chimbi and Naureen Hossain
Mar 7 2025 (IPS) - Like the Afghan robotics team, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted...
Female Nepali double-decker driver in Dubai has charted her own path through life
Shanti Bhandari
Growing up in Okhaldhunga, my sisters never went to school. I...
Nepal ranks highest for sex ratio at birth in the region due to gender-biased sex selection
Shristi Karki
Public health expert Aruna Uprety was flying from...
The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons
Kabul, Afghanistan (IPS) -...
Menstrual discrimination has been harder to demolish than chhau sheds
【Achiham, Nepali Times＝Dhanu Bishwakarma】
- On 20 December 2016, 45-year old Dammara Upadhya of Achham’s Timilsain...
By Joyce Chimbi
FREETOWN & NAIROBI (IPS) - “A person shall not contract marriage with a child,” Sierra Leone’s landmark Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2024 says,...
