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Rebuilding Nepal: Women's Roles in Political Transition and Disaster Recovery
This study and video by Georgetown’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security explore how gender-based discrimination and legal barriers amplified the adverse impacts of conflict and the earthquake on women in Nepal.
Same-Sex Sexualities, Gender Variance, Economy and Livelihood in Nepal: Exclusions, Subjectivity and Development
This case study explores the relationship between socioeconomic opportunity and exclusion in relation to minority gender and sexualities in Nepal.
Sedition, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Identity in South Asia
Special issue of South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ) focused on how laws against sedition and free speech are increasingly being used to silence activists, journalists, etc.
Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries: Gender Justice and Norm Change
Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ lives across very different contexts. Grounded in four years of in-depth research in Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda and…
Neither heroines nor victims: Women migrant workers and changing family and community relations in Nepal
Pourakhi, an organization established by women returnees in 2003, has collected more than 1,700 case studies on returnee women migrant workers in Nepal. This paper delves into 307 of these, as well as a consultation with 14 returnee migrant women…
Re-assessing gender norms after conflict: Gender in peacebuilding in Nepal
This report examines the role of gender in peacebuilding in Nepal, which emerged from a ten-year civil war in 2006.
“How can you be a marda if you beat your wife?” Notions of masculinities and violence in Eastern Nepal
A report of participatory learning research in selected districts in Eastern Nepal, exploring notions of masculinities among young men and boys, how these notions shape their relationships towards others, and young men’s experiences and attitudes…
Are Schools Safe and Gender Equal Spaces?
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Plan International conducted a baseline study in five Asian countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam, as part of a programme to address School Related Gender based Violence…
Maitri
A free, confidential, nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area, that primarily helps families from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka among others) facing domestic violence, emotional abuse, cultural alienation,…
Blue Diamond Society
The Blue Diamond Society was established in 2001. Working for sexual minorities in a conservative country like Nepal which still disapproves sexual behaviour other than heterosexual and therefore people like us was extremely challenging.