Nepal was late to adopt social media. Now that it’s arrived, cross-border traffickers have access to a much wider field of exploitation.
Author: Sunita Neupane
Sunita Neupane is a Nepalese journalist, associate reporter with Global Press; she specializes in social issues and human rights.
In border towns, rallies organized by Hindu nationalists often end in violence — fracturing communities and threatening Nepal’s fragile secularism.
At one public hospital in Kathmandu, half of all infertility cases come from men who work in Gulf countries.
For one farmer, the barley supply once made flour for a year. Now, it is limited to two handfuls. The loss of USAID adds to the long list of challenges.
Cyber slavery rings are growing across the region, trapping young jobseekers in brutal scam compounds — and fueling a global criminal enterprise.
A cable car project to Nepal’s Pathibhara temple threatens the livelihood of porters and is seen by the indigenous Limbu community as a desecration of sacred land. Their protests reflect broader struggles over development and indigenous rights in the country.
Deported by the U.S. and rejected by Bhutan, dozens of former refugees are now stranded in Nepal without citizenship or legal status. Their statelessness raises urgent legal and human rights questions about the consequences of deportation.
Nine of 10 people needing transplants never find a donor. Updated laws increase the donor pool by allowing transplants from brain-dead patients. But religious beliefs about reincarnation make such donations rare.
One-third of the dialysis patients at the country’s National Kidney Center came for treatment after working abroad, often at jobs with grueling hours and few water or bathroom breaks in stifling heat.
Anti-corruption protesters find themselves on the wrong side of the law, charged with “character assassination of honorable people.
When the desire to transition outweighs the severe risks of self-medicating.
In a society still ruled by caste, couples fight families and courts to make a life together.