Higher Workload Experienced by Women During the COVID-19 Lockdown Period
Published in Europasianjouranls: Voices from the Field: Combating COVID-19 Pandemic in Nepal | Europasian Journal of Medical Sciences (europasianjournals.org) The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of human life. In Nepal, a strict lockdown was imposed by the government starting on March 24, 2020. This resulted in all citizens having to be confined to their […]
Redefining the Early and Child Marriage and Reconsidering Its Elimination in Nepal Through Absolute Criminalization
Child marriage is prevalent in South Asia, as it is estimated there are 285 million child brides. At present 59% of women aged 20–24 in Bangladesh were married under the age of 18, 40% in Nepal and 27 % in India. Child marriage is regarded as one of the harmful traditional practice existing in Nepal […]
WOREC’s position paper on child marriage
WOREC’s position: 1) WOREC strongly condemns the practice of forced child marriage and recognizes that various forms of child marriage are evolving. WOREC thus believes, there are forced child marriage, arranged child marriage, self-initiative child marriage, elopements, etc. 2) There are various underlying root causes and consequences related to child marriage but barely the voices […]
Summary report on early and child marriage
Child marriage is prevalent in South Asia, as it is estimated there are 285 million child brides. At present 59% of women aged 20–24 in Bangladesh were married under the age of 18, 40% in Nepal and 27 % in India. Child marriage is regarded as one of the harmful traditional practice existing in Nepal […]
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An assessment on risk and preventive measures of Gender-Based Violence during lock-down period of COVID 19
•Majority of the respondents (56%) said there is high chance of occurring violence during lockdown period; •75% respondents said domestic violence like physical violence and verbal abuse can happen, 46% said rape, 36% said sexual abuse, 33% said attempt to rape and 49% said there is chance of happening suicide during lockdown period; •The survey […]
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Developing peer support for adolescent friendly sexual and reproductive health services in Rasuwa and Nuwakot district
This study was conducted by WOREC in technical and financial support of Grand Challenge Canada (GCC) and Memorial University of Newfound land, Canada. This study sought to provide new ways of teaching and learning methods to adolescent in sexual and reproductive health so that they can be well prepared for their future life. Present study […]
Socio-economic Impact of COVID-19 on Returnee Migrant Women Workers in Nepal
This survey was carried out withan attempt to explore how pandemic has affected the employment and income generatingopportunities of both returnee and non-returnee migrant workers.The survey with returnee women migrant workers enquired on issues related to wage theft, theirimpressions of quarantine shelters in Nepal, if there has been any change in their status withtheir family […]
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