Women in Nepal face frequent discrimination because of who they are. As a result, they are denied control over their bodies and lives – with grave consequences for their health, including high rates of uterine prolapse.

Many women in Nepal are carrying a severe burden, with some suffering for years before finding the means to get help. They are living with uterine prolapse, a painful, debilitating condition. All too often, women are expected to marry young, have multiple pregnancies within a short period of time...

Widespread and systemic gender discrimination in Nepal has led to hundreds of thousands of women suffering from a reproductive health condition that leaves them in great pain, unable to carry out daily tasks and often ostracized from their families and communities, Amnesty International said in a...

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In the second instalment from our team, recently returned from Nepal, Kathryn Ramsay from Amnesty’s Gender Programme recalls a meeting with Dalit women in Mugu district. Hira Devi B.K. is 16 years old and studying in class 6 at school. She was the only teenager among the group of Dalit women we met...

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By Sanhita Ambast, Amnesty Campaigner The summer in Nepal’s Kailali district is scorching. The pre-monsoon lands are dry, cracked and dusty, and temperatures soar above 45°C. Schools even change their hours, running from 6-10am  to avoid the worst of the heat. I’m in Nepal with a team from Amnesty...

Impunity is a longstanding problem in Nepal where lack of political will to account for past and present actions of the politically well-connected is compounded by other obstacles to justice, especially for those who lack financial resources or social influence. This climate of impunity also poses...

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At least 25,000 people leave Nepal every month to look for work abroad and to escape poverty and unemployment back home. This report reveals how recruitment agencies and brokers, many of whom earn huge profits, are complicit in trafficking Nepalese migrant workers. Many recruiters deceive migrants...

Hundreds of thousands of Nepalese migrate abroad every year to find work. Many end up in the Gulf states or Malaysia, working under abusive and exploitative conditions. Brokers and recruitment agencies in Nepal routinely deceive migrants about the work, pay and conditions awaiting them. As a...

In this open letter, Amnesty International, Advocacy Forum, Human Rights Watch and International Commission of Jurists write to Nepal’s newly-elected Prime Minister to reiterate their longstanding request that the government makes accountability for human rights abuses before, during, and after the...