Nepal Police, on Saturday remanded rape accused Manoj Pandey in custody. He was arrested from Kathmandu on Saturday afternoon after a series of videos published by former model and beauty pageant winner Sushmita Regmi accused one of the organisers of Miss Global International, who is a promoter of a consultancy, of drugging and raping her […]
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A 16-day campaign against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has started today with the slogan “Let’s start from home, let’s end violence against women”. Kamala Parajuli, Chairperson of the National Women Commission (NWC) Nepal, said that the slogan indicated to the fact that 75 percent of cases related violence against women were perpetrated in their homes, by
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As many as 143 cases of violence against women were reported from all over the country in the month of Ashoj (mid-September to mid-October), a report says. According to the data maintained by Women Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC), a total of 84 cases of domestic violence and 21 cases of rape were reported in the period.
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A doctor employed at the Subash Medical located at Dhankuta-7, Dr Raj Sharma, was arrested on Monday, on the charge of sexually assaulting a patient. DSP Deepak Kumar Rai of the District Police Office said that Sharma was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed at the Police Office accusing the doctor of sexually
Twenty-eight-year-old Laxmi Bhatt, of Rodinge village in Adarsha-4 of Doti district, has sustained serious injuries after an unidentified group sprayed a flammable substance on her and set her on fire while she was sleeping in her shop. Inspector at the District Police Office, Doti, Kantiraj Joshi said, “Laxmi has been seriously injured in the incident.
Police arrested a 29-year-old man after he beat up a woman and force-fed her human excreta accusing her of ‘practising witchcraft’ in Aaurahi Rural Municipality, Siraha. The arrested has been identified as Ghuran Sah of the rural municipality. Police said Ghuran had thrashed 50-year-old Hira Devi Sah accusing her of practising witchcraft. Ghuran is Hira
National Assembly Vice-Chairperson Shashikala Dahal on Monday held a discussion with women’s rights activists and media persons about ways to reduce incidents of violence against women in the country and to effectively implement prevailing laws against gender-based violence. Speaking at a program organized by the Federal Parliament Secretariat at Singha Durbar ahead of International Women’s
From mass job losses to soaring domestic violence, the rise of revenge porn and a widening gender poverty gap, 2020 has threatened to hobble progress on women’s equality as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks global havoc. U.N. experts predict the gender poverty gap will widen in 2021 amid the economic downturn. Here are 10 set-backs women
From child marriage to revenge porn: 10 set-backs for women in 2020 Read Post »
After the video of Nikisha Shrestha, an aspiring model and a TikTok celebrity, being chased and harassed by two men became viral, support for Nikisha as well as demand to bring her culprits to book flooded various online platforms. Following a public outcry, the Nepal Police Headquarters directed its Cyber Bureau to investigate the matter
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in coordination with the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen (MoWCSC) and relevant provincial and local authorities has launched the second phase of a project that seeks to reduce Gender-based Violence (GBV) and discrimination against women and girls in two provinces. Issuing a press statement yesterday UNFPA informed
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