Languages
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
News and Views from the Global South
NEPAL: Bullets Fire Up Opposition to King’s Rule
The shooting deaths of three protesters in two days appears to have finally sparked mass support for the opposition movement against the direct rule of King Gyanendra.NEPAL: Bullets Fire Up Opposition to King’s Rule
The shooting deaths of three protesters in two days appears to have finally sparked mass support for the opposition movement against the direct rule of King Gyanendra.NEPAL: Protests Punctuate General Strike
A general strike smothered life in Nepal on Friday, where riot police seized dozens more protesters who torched a post office and vehicles and pelted stones one day before scheduled nation-wide rallies against King Gyanendra's rule.POLITICS-NEPAL: Lights Return but Spark Missing
Authorities have ended nightly power cuts in Nepal's capital so they can smother an opposition general strike next week that movement leaders insist could trigger an end to palace rule if it was buttressed with more international pressure.WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Nepalis Take Two-pronged Approach
Expect to see Nepal's unique two-pronged flag fluttering often at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Karachi until Tuesday. Groups based here that are attending the meet say they will both lead and hop aboard protests against King Gyanendra's rule as well as push their own unique social agendas.RIGHTS: Nepal Tribes to Raise Own Flag in Geneva
The world will be watching from this week as the United Nation's human rights body evaluates Nepal's unelected palace government but many of this nation's indigenous people will have one eye focused on a separate meeting.NEPAL: Spring Blooms Early, Democracy Dormant
Spring has come a month early to Nepal's capital, according to locals eyeing the blooms in their gardens, but more than a year after King Gyanendra seized power, a democratic thaw seems unlikely.NEPAL: Don’t Forget the Economy
The owner of the small 'Camera Mart' in Kathmandu's Thamel tourist area, Aakash Shrestha has seen business plummet about 60 percent in the last nine years. "I didn't sell a camera yesterday and I probably won't sell one today," the young man said early one recent evening. "Maybe tomorrow," he added with a smile and a slight shrug that signalled 'what else can I do?'.RIGHTS-NEPAL: ‘You Are Being Watched’, Warns UN Official
Nepal's government should know that the country's human rights performance is being watched especially closely prior to the March meeting of the United Nations human rights body, said its representative in the South Asian country on Friday.NEPAL: 13,000 Dead, Plus One
Thirteen thousand - plus Asmina Chapagain. The former is the estimated number of Nepalis killed since Maoist rebels hurled their first homemade bombs at the state, 10 years ago, this week. Chapagain was one of the latest innocents caught in the crossfire.NEPAL: 13,000 Dead, Plus One
Thirteen thousand - plus Asmina Chapagain. The former is the estimated number of Nepalis killed since Maoist rebels hurled their first homemade bombs at the state, 10 years ago, this week. Chapagain was one of the latest innocents caught in the crossfire.NEPAL: Missing Voters Mar King’s Democracy Plan
Streets and many polling stations were close to deserted, Wednesday, as controversial local body elections were held across Nepal, where police shot and killed one protester and fired into the air to break up other rallies.NEPAL: Guinea Pigs in Hepatitis E Vaccine Trials
The best way to prevent water-borne diseases is to provide people with clean water-that seems obvious. So when Dr. Sharad Onta saw United States researchers arrive in Nepal to test a vaccine for hepatitis E on local people, he started asking why the money was not being spent on that simple solution.NEPAL: Stalemate, One Year After King’s Coup
One election candidate is dead, another is recovering from a gunshot wound and dozens more live in fear in army barracks across Nepal. Nearly two weeks of daily skirmishes between armour-clad police and rock throwing, tyre-burning protesters have filled jails and turned town centres into zones of fear.NEPAL: Stalemate, One Year After King’s Coup
One election candidate is dead, another is recovering from a gunshot wound and dozens more live in fear in army barracks across Nepal. Nearly two weeks of daily skirmishes between armour-clad police and rock throwing, tyre-burning protesters have filled jails and turned town centres into zones of fear.NEPAL: Few Takers for King’s Peace Plan
The Nepali king's roadmap to peace appeared to have serious wrinkles Thursday after no one emerged to contest many posts for the Feb. 8 local elections and hundreds of activists were arrested as week-long protests continued.NEPAL: Day Curfew Follows Political Arrests
Except for heavily-armed police and troops, the streets of Nepal's capital city were nearly empty Friday but opposition leaders were still vowing to hold planned protests after a dawn-to-dusk curfew ended.NEPAL: Day Curfew Follows Political Arrests
Except for heavily-armed police and troops, the streets of Nepal's capital city were nearly empty Friday but opposition leaders were still vowing to hold planned protests after a dawn-to-dusk curfew ended.NEPAL: Religious Leaders Want to Be Peacemakers
Mother Teresa's successor has urged the warring sides in Nepal's conflict to trade their guns for love just as religious leaders are pushing to play a peace-making role in the land where the Buddha was born. Sister Mary Nirmala, head of the Kolkata-based Missionaries of Charity, and Nepal-born herself, believes that love and compassion can help bring peace to this land, torn by a decade of civil war.NEPAL: Maoist Rebels Flaunt Firepower
Boom! A young policeman in blue fatigues jumps as the bomb explodes, echoing in the narrow streets and alleys of the Charkhal quarter in Nepal's capital. A colleague standing nearby laughs at his fear but none of the small group of police move from the shelter of the three-storey building onto the main street.NEPAL: Squeezed to Death Between King and Rebels
A month before a contentious election, Maoist rebels in western Nepal have resumed bombing and killing, the king is campaigning in the east and caught between these two warring forces are ordinary Nepalis bled dry by a decade of civil strife.« Previous Page — Next Page »
The Week with IPS
NEXT STOP - SDGs
Tracking global progress towards a sustainable world
Tracking global progress towards a sustainable world
