Full Coverage: Nepal

26.07.2006 Despite spending the last three months engaged in peace talks with the Nepalese government, Maoist rebels are still not prepared to demobilise, disarm or integrate, their leaders said in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.

21.07.2006 A high-level United Nations team will travel to Nepal next week to discuss proposed UN assistance for the peace process, after Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that recent developments have provided an “unprecedented opportunity” to achieve a negotiated solution to the 10 years of conflict in the Himalayan kingdom.

20.07.2006 Nepalissa on ilmassa runsaasti optimismia vielä hataraa rauhanprosessia kohtaan. Rauhan, joka alkoi muutamia kuukausia sitten solmitusta tulitauosta, uskotaan vielä kehittyvän lisääntyneeksi turvallisuudeksi maaseudulla. Myös erilaisiin kehitysprojekteihin uskotaan jatkossa liikenevän enemmän taloudellisia resursseja.

20.07.2006 There is a lot of optimism in Nepal that the shaky peace process, born out of a ceasefire some months ago, will lead to improved security in rural areas as well as more public money for development projects that the country sorely needs.

19.07.2006 Bhutanese refugees in Nepal are holding an indefinite protest in Kathmandu to push for talks with Bhutan’s government.

19.07.2006 About 100 demonstrators were arrested in Nepal yesterday for protesting against the government's failure to provide former bonded labourers with food, shelter, land, employment and education as required by law.

18.07.2006 Vidya Bhandari , senior member of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), pushed for and recently got parliament approval for two controversial rights 33 per cent reservation for women in parliament and citizenship on the basis of the mother's nationality. Bhandari speaks to Sudeshna Sarkar of the Women's Feature Service.

18.07.2006 Members of Parliament (MPs) in Kathmandu today slammed the government for apathy towards giving citizenship to Madhesi people or to children whose mothers are foreigners’ wives even after the declaration of the House.

13.07.2006 from South Asian Media Net:
Dwindling glaciers pose a threat to many livelihoods since the region is largely agricultural and depends on seasonal melting for irrigation.

12.07.2006 Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world.About 90% of the population lives in rural areas. The conflict situation affected the health, education, and other rights of the most vulnerable members of society, especially women and children.This article examine the evidence on the current state of child health and human rights in Nepal.

11.07.2006 The World Population Day is being marked worldwide with focus on reproductive health of young people. The growing imbalance between the economic development and population growth has been a major global challenge.

10.07.2006 THERE used to be a dire prediction that Nepal was going to become desert. This seemed quite logical amid a dangerous phenomenon occurring then in which the crucial forest cover was going through a massive clearance for fuelwood, fodder and money-earning timber. But despite the foretelling of the worst, nothing of the dire scale happened. The conservation successes of Nepal proved the dangerous prediction false.

10.07.2006 Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has urged Maoist rebels to give up their weapons and has promised to improve infrastructure and create jobs.

06.07.2006 The AIDS epidemic is fast spreading in Nepal presenting a horrifying picture. Reports estimate that Nepal already has over 60,000 people infected with HIV/AIDS. In a small country like Nepal with 23-plus million population, this number is not negligible.

06.07.2006

05.07.2006 Nyt kun kymmenen vuotta kestänyt maolaiskapina on päättynyt, tuhannet kotoaan paenneet nepalilaiset suunnittelevat paluuta. Siinäkin matkassa on monta mutkaa. Palaajien on hankittava erillinen lupa kotialueelle menemiseen, eikä heillä palatessaan enää välttämättä ole elinkeinoa tai ehjää kotia.

03.07.2006 Owing to media and publicity stunts, rapid modernisation and the development of ultra modern concepts, the attitude of adolescents towards sex and reproductive health is changing all over the world.