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NEPAL
Protests Fail to Stop Climate Loans
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Nepal will implement five projects with 110 million dollars sanctioned by the controversial Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), ignoring protestors who say this least developed country merits grants rather than climate loans.
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NEPAL
Praying Against Climate Change
By Sudeshna Sarkar*
KAVRE, Nepal - There are gasps from the audience as a series of shocking images flash across the screen: human hands eaten away by arsenic, the carcass of a cow so emaciated that it looks two-dimensional, a starved child with matchstick legs grasping at the udder of an animal for sustenance.
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NEPAL
Community Forestry Unfazed by Political Turmoil
By Keya Acharya
GODAVARI, Nepal - Nepal’s joint forest management system has taken such deep roots that the country’s prolonged political instability has had little effect on it.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Himalayan Nations Yet to Break the Ice
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Chungda Sherpa, a former herder from eastern Nepal, has a warning tale ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Durban.
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ENVIRONMENT
Nepali Women Live With Climate Terror
By Sudeshna Sarkar
CHARIKOT, Nepal - Suntali Shrestha wrings her hands in tension and despair as she recounts how she has been spending sleepless nights fearing that the flood alarm in her village would go off while she slept and she would be submerged.
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NEPAL
No Brakes on Sex Trafficking
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - While a Nepalese campaign to stop human trafficking gains recognition by the White House and Hollywood, Nepal continues to be a prime source for sex trafficking, thanks to unsettled conditions created by a protracted political crisis.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Nepali Women Sow a Secure Future
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Learning a lesson from crop failures attributed to climate change, Nepal’s women farmers are discarding imported hybrid seeds and husbanding hardier local varieties in cooperative seed banks.
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NEPAL
Fasting Against Corruption Spreads
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Inspired by Indian socialist leader Anna Hazare’s celebrated public fast against corruption in the Indian capital of New Delhi, starvation protests have sprung up in Nepal to press for a timely new constitution.
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NEPAL
Adapting to Climate Change Can be Simple
By Athar Parvaiz
KATHMANDU - Saraswoti Bhetwal’s terraced fields stand out in the sub-Himalayan Lamdihi village as a mosaic of shapes and colours formed by beans, bitter gourd, chilly, tomato, lady’s fingers and other crops.
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NEPAL
Peace Fails to Stop Female Workers’ Exodus
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Six years ago Shantimaya Dong Tamang went to Kuwait to work as an illegal domestic worker, falling for brokers’ tales of how she could earn good money and stand on her own feet.
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NEPAL
Improved Wood Stoves Save Health, Environment
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - When Binita Lamichhane got married she was troubled by her husband's bloodshot eyes. "What happened to your eyes?" the 18-year-old bride asked. "Smoke," came the answer.
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NEPAL
Religious Practices Oppress Women
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - The recent gang-rape of a Buddhist nun and her expulsion from her sect have sparked a debate about the deep-rooted religious traditions and biases that foster discrimination and violence, especially against women, in this South Asian state.
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Trekking Trails Lead Nepal Women to Empowerment
By Sudeshna Sarkar
KATHMANDU - Dawa Gyalmo Sherpa’s three sons went to look for blue-collar jobs in Malaysia, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, saying Mulkharka, their tiny village in Kathmandu valley, had no livelihood prospects.
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Nepal marks the end of a 240-year monarchy and the birth of the republic. Deposed King Gyanendra quit the palace on June 11, 2008, leaving the Nepali people with new questions: Will the new leaders deliver on their promises? Will the poor see their lives improve? Will Nepal be a truly independent, sovereign and inclusive democratic republic?.