Full Coverage: Nepal

08/31/2006 One the UN Day of the Disappeared Wednesday, Amnesty releasing findings documenting rising enforced disappearances in Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka in the context of the "war on terror."

08/31/2006 From caste discrimination to forced disappearances and torture, participants at a conference on human rights in Asia detail the abuses faced in 12 Asian nations.

08/28/2006

educating young girls in Nepal

From 2004 to 2006, CEDPA joined with local partners in the Baglung, Mohottari and Udayapur districts of Nepal to improve adolescent girls’ lives and create health awareness in them through a non-formal education program.

08/28/2006 The UN has appointed Ian Martin as the new envoy to Nepal to spearhead efforts to promote peace in the troubled Himalayan country. The envoy has previously served on several occasions as special envoy to Timor-Leste.

08/23/2006 The first phase of the polio drop administering campaign will be launched in the Nepal from September 2 to 4, Dr Yasobardan Pradhan, director of the Child Health Division Office, said at a press conference organised by the Global Network of Health Journalists.

08/22/2006 Already facing uncertainty over a violent Maoist insurgency, a splinter Maoist faction in Nepal's southern area is now calling for sovereignty and independence.

08/04/2006 Concerns are growing about the poor level of maternity care for Nepalese women.

08/03/2006 The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Nepal is launching a one-year project to deliver mobile reproductive health services to the conflict-hit in six hill and mountain districts of the far-western and the mid-western regions.

08/02/2006 KATHMANDU (IPS) - For a week now, a United Nations mission sent by Secretary General Kofi Annan has been huddled in the Nepalese capital trying to hammer out an agreement between the government and Maoists rebels on how to manage weapons for a durable peace. But the task is turning out to be tricky.

08/02/2006 Nepal's state-run newspaper editorializes on community-level programs across the nation this week informing and encouraging mothers about the importance of breastfeeding.