On International Women’s Day, AFPTV looks at a series of portraits of women working in male-dominated professions. Nepal’s Kung Fu Nun teaches schoolgirls martial arts! To view this informative video, click on the link below: https://youtu.be/el3gC_KaH34
Nepali Women
How Some Glue and a Rusty Bike Helped a Nepalese Girl Escape Child Marriage
“We’ve never had this many female pupils before,” says principal Lal Chandra Pandey as the class opens their textbooks. “I’d say we were used to 90% of the girls in the region coming to school for a few years, and then typically having to leave at around 14 or 15
‘My dream is coming true’: the Nepalese woman who rose from slavery to politics.
Sita Chhaudry was sold as a slave at 10 years old. Starved, beaten and denied an education, she has since been elected to local government – and is determined to fight poverty and human rights abuses. To read further, please click on the link below: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/18/i-lived-in-fear-nepalese-official-sold-as-a-slave-at-10-years-old-domestic-worker
Nepal Criminalises Banishing Menstruating Women to Huts
Lawmakers in Nepal have passed a law criminalizing a practice that forces women from their homes during menstruation. Under the law anyone who makes a woman observe the custom faces a three-month jail sentence and a $30 (£23) fine. The practice, known as Chhaupadi, has been in the spotlight recently after
How the Earthquake Turned Women into Builders
Reconstruction in Nepal has been slow since a devastating earthquake over two years ago. But in some rural areas women are breaking with tradition and picking up tools to speed things up. To read more, please click on the link below: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39694171
Nepal Journey to School Across River
Incredible video of Nepali school girls getting to school in a most unusual way! To view the footage, please click on the link below: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/39233167/nepal-journey-to-school-across-river
Friends of Nepal Let Girls Learn Grant Awards Program Accepting Applications
Friends of Nepal is accepting proposals for projects that support girls’ education, under the Peace Corps Global Initiative and theme of Let Girls Learn. To find out more, please click on the link below: http://www. friendsofnepal.com/what_we_do/ 2017-applications/
Sabina Shrestha OP-ED: How the Trump Gag Rule Threatens Women’s Lives in Nepal
To read more, please follow this link: http://How the Trump Gag Rule Threatens Women’s Lives in Nepal
NPCA News – Response to the continuation of the LET GIRLS LEARN Initiative
Earlier this week, news reports cast the ongoing commitment into some doubt, especially in its current form. CNN, citing internal agency communications it obtained, reported that while work on these programs would continue, they would no longer be done under the “Let Girls Learn” (LGL) initiative launched two years ago
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