End modern day slavery!
Author: Dr. Renu Rajbhandari Many female migrants live their lives within closed doors day in, day out, many with bruises on their bodies. Some even get murdered but these killings are marked as suicides by forensic doctors THE campaign against slavery started in 1837, with the British regime announcing, through the Slavery Abolition Act, an […]
Holistic Approaches to Realizing Women’s Rights; Ensuring Justice, Ensuring Rights: From victimhood to agency
National conference on violence against women January 6th-7th, Makwanpur, Hetauda, Nepal Introduction: Violence against women (VAW) has become pervasive within Nepal. Reporting of incidences of violence has, indeed, increased within recent years. However, it has been observed that the real rate of cases of VAW is also increasing. These rates are rising despite stakeholders’ involvement […]
Women on the move
Author: Renu Rajbhandari, Namita Nepal DEC 12 – Nearly 50 percent of all migrants are women. While previously women often migrated as “dependents”, they are now increasingly migrating as individuals. An increasing number of cases have pointed to the potential for female migrant workers to improve the living standard of their families. Based on research […]