Poverty and lack of access to health institutions have led many residents of Rolpa to lose their newborns even as the government fails to provide basic health facilities.
Mahesh Neupane |CIJ, Nepal
Poverty and lack of access to health institutions have led many residents of Rolpa to lose their newborns even as the government fails to provide basic health facilities.
Mahesh Neupane |CIJ, Nepal
Almost 19,000 bighas of land belonging to individuals, institutions and the government remain appropriated illegally. Having begun during the Maoist insurgency, this neglect of the rule of law and citizens’ rights continues to date.
Durgalal KC |CIJ, Nepal
The money sent by millions of Nepalis in foreign employment helps their families and also the country’s economy. But there’s another side to it as well—the families haven’t just received money but also misery and tragedy.
Bidhya Rai |CIJ, Nepal
Former Maoist combatants waged the 10-year insurgency against ‘feudal’ creditors. Now the same creditors are evicting them from their own village.
Lokendra Bishwakarma |CIJ, Nepal
Devendra Bhattarai |CIJ, Nepal
As living in the hills becomes more difficult, people are fleeing in droves abandoning their villages. As a result, while farmlands have been left desolate and abandoned in the hills, land is increasingly getting fragmented in the lowlands, and population pressure is rising in the cities.
Gopal Dahal |CIJ, Nepal
Spoilage loss inhibits plan to buttress value chain of mandarin oranges in Syangja.
Dinesh Kafle |CIJ, Nepal
Several young people from various countries, including Nepal, have reportedly been abducted in Myanmar’s ethnic states under rebel control. These areas are increasingly becoming hotspots for cyber scams. According to reports, Chinese nationals torture these trafficked abductees and force them into cyber crimes.
Jeevan Dangi and Bhadra Sharma |CIJ, Nepal
While public hospitals are reeling under lack of human and economic resources, the government is donating large amounts of funds to community hospitals, many of which haven’t submitted reports of how they spend the funds.
Sagar Budhathoki |CIJ, Nepal
Many Bhutanese refugees have been rehabilitated to third countries but they have not heard from their children languishing in jails. While Bhutan bans ICRC from entering the jails, the list of the prisoners is scheduled to be released from New York this week.
Devendra Bhattarai |CIJ, Nepal
In Baitadi, monkey menace has forced hundreds to migrate to Tarai and India while it has left hundreds of ropanis of land barren.
Basanta Pratap Singh and Lokesh Saud |CIJ, Nepal
The Pokhara bus park project, conceived 47 years ago, remains in limbo, with its land embezzled and captured by squatters.
Shyam Rana Magar |CIJ, Nepal
As the government fails in protecting people’s properties and returning embezzled money, billions of rupees deposited by hundreds of thousands of Nepalis at cooperatives remains at risk.
Ramesh Kumar |CIJ, Nepal
Many countries around the world don’t have laws that criminalise marital rape, but Nepal has already enacted one, classifying forced physical relations within or outside of marriage as rape. Despite this, societal attitudes obstruct victims’ access to justice.
Pratima Silwal |CIJ, Nepal
Even as the very significance of the Constituency Development Fund is being questioned, lawmakers continue to spend money in the name of administrative expenses. The Centre for Investigative Journalism analyses the reckless administrative expenses of seven members of parliament representing Siraha and Saptari districts.
Surendra Kumar Kamati | CIJ, Nepal
Experts warn an agricultural crisis looms large owing to haphazard plotting of arable land.
Seema Tamang | CIJ, Nepal
Why has Kathmandu’s garbage issue not been resolved? A look at the politics of trash and the billions of dollars that are made off of it.
BP Anamol | CIJ, Nepal
Young people, mainly from the Madhesi Dalit minority, are dying in police custody because the government isn’t doing enough to prevent torture.
Rohej Khatiwada | CIJ, Nepal
What impact do strict laws and inadequate investigations into wildlife crimes have on the Chepang community in Chitwan? The story of Rajkumar Praja’s family in Korak serves as an example of those seeking an answer.
Tufan Neupane |CIJ, Nepal
Defendants with strong social clout pressure rape survivors to change their statements, prompting courts to sentence the victims instead. Further, an increasing tendency to engage in “bargaining,” is making the victims’ fight for justice harder and more isolating.
Durgalal KC |CIJ, Nepal