KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Sushila Gautam ... up three years ago by the local council to provide basic education to women like her. “Now, I finally have the chance,” says Sushila.

Lawmakers and rights activists have stressed the need to address the issues of urban poor women with more ... marginalised and vulnerable women and girls in Nepal in all forms." ...

Images of the letter appear in The Public Life of Women, a new photobook released by the Nepal Picture Library (NPL). The book traces, through images, a feminist awakening of women in Nepal ...

Source: Sipa USA Prabin Ranabhat / SOPA Images/Si This article contains references to sexual violence. In May, a young woman in Nepal took to TikTok to share her account of sexual abuse ...

Nepal’s Supreme Court recognized that adopting laws permitting abortion is insufficient to protect women’s reproductive rights. The plaintiff in this case, hailing from a poor, rural part of ...

An elderly woman carries a basket of fruit through the fields in Godauari, Nepal on June 29, 2013. (Sharada Prasad/Flickr) Want to see your images in our Photo of the Day posts? Use Flickr and tag ...

A Mid North Coast doctor and Nepalese doctors are helping transform the state of women's health in Nepal. What's next ... care for all if you are rich or poor." ...