But in 2011 she decided to spend a few years in Nepal ... of women, including a former sex slave, an elephant trainer, a swimmer, and the first female pilot in the country. Each photo includes ...

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.

Kalli Kumari Biswokarma was tortured by neighbours in her village in Nepal for two days. Credit: Photo: AFP/PRAKASH ... "I was victimised because I am a poor woman," said Biswokarma, who belongs ...

For about five days each month, the 16-year-old is banished to a hut – a windowless, ramshackle shed with a small door and poor sanitation ... remote west of Nepal in which women, considered ...

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 ...

Women in Nepal are traditionally ... as her menstruation would end. Poor child closed her eyes forever," Laxmi Bogati told the Kathmandu Post. The incident in Nepal's Doti district comes just ...

The data paints a stark picture of inequality, with a significant portion of Dalit families categorized as extremely poor. According to the report, Nepal's ... Terai Dalit women, a staggering ...

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 ...