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By Mar 9
Self-Censorship Creeping Up After Killings - The climate of fear that has been growing in this Himalayan country since the murder of two media entrepreneurs and other attacks on journalists may well push them to turn to more self-censorship.
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POLITICS-NEPAL

By Jan 5
Parties at Odds, Peace at Risk - Nepal’s walk to peace from a decade-long, Maoist-led bloody insurgency that ended four years ago could take longer than expected.
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NEPAL

By Dec 23
Witch Tag Only on Dalits, Minorities - Just 40 kms away from the capital Kathmandu, in Thasingtole, Lalitpur District, Kalli Kumari B.K., 46, a local Dalit woman, was mercilessly beaten up. She was accused of being a 'witch', imprisoned in a shed and forced to eat her own excreta
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NEPAL

By Dec 16
Widows Break Tradition - Wear Red - Bhagwati Adhikari was a teenager when she was married off to a village boy of the same caste. Just a few years later when she was in her early 20s, she became a widow. Her husband, who worked as a security guard in Kathmandu, was murdered. Adhikari was left alone to support her family.
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POLITICS-NEPAL

By Aug 3
Women Push for Gender Equality in New Constitution - A political crisis, which has dragged on for months, crippling progress in drafting a new constitution for Nepal by the Constituent Assembly (CA) has considerably dampened the euphoria of women's organisations here.
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NEPAL

By Jun 29
Third Gender Assert Rights - Two years ago, 23-year-old Bhakti Shah, a cadet in the Nepal Army, was dismissed because she was seen to spend most of her free time with a fellow female cadet.
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HEALTH-NEPAL

By May 29
Baby Boom in Maoist Army - At the annual military parade of the People’s Liberation Army, Nepal’s ex-guerrillas, curious bystanders saw a young woman clad in military fatigues kiss and cuddle a baby before handing her back to an older woman.
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NEPAL

By Apr 30
People's Voices: Reflecting on the Republic - Maoist hammer and sickle graffiti from last year's constituent assembly (CA) election is still fresh on the walls all around Gorkha Bajar. This historic town, some 150 km west of the capital Kathmandu, used to be a Maoist stronghold during the 'peoples war' from 1996-2006.
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NEPAL

By Apr 9
Displaced Choose Urban Homelessness Over Rural Insecurity - Bishnu Maya Dahal, 51, dreams of going back to her village in eastern Nepal.
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DEVELOPMENT-NEPAL

By Mar 2
Women Everesters Talk Gender Equality - Seven young women have started a seemingly commonplace programme of video presentations at schools in this mountainous Himalayan country. The programme’s contents however are unique.
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RIGHTS-NEPAL

By Feb 3
Law on Disappearances Provokes Outcry - Despite loud opposition, the Maoist-led coalition government of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has vowed to push through an ordinance to resolve the cases of hundreds of people ‘disappeared’ during the decade-long people's war waged between Maoist rebels and the forces of the former monarchy.
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HEALTH-NEPAL

By Jan 13
On Course to Achieve MDG on Maternal Health - Impoverished Nepal has dramatically reduced maternal mortality cases from 540 per 100,000 live births in 2001 to the present 280 - a feat experts attribute chiefly to the legalisation of abortion.
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NEPAL

By Jan 5
Army-Rebel Integration Hangs Fire - Two years after Maoist fighters put aside their arms and agreed to place themselves in United Nations-monitored camps, the issue of integrating them into the regular Nepal army as part of a peace process hangs fire.
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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?.