Adding insult to injury: Nepali women, children grapple with statelessness
Many Nepali women and their children are enduring the plight of statelessness due to discriminatory politics and government officials. Misogynistic...
Silent Suffering: Nepal's Unheard Cry for Justice and Rehabilitation for Rape Survivors
Every day, four girls fall victim to rape in Nepal, yet the government has failed to assume responsibility for the...
Pesticides causing public health crisis
Misuse of pesticides is becoming a major reason for deaths in Nepal. Research shows that the public health crisis caused...
Whose CIAA is it anyway?
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) in Nepal, initially tasked with combating corruption and ensuring good governance,...
Migrant worker
Migrant worker import quota won via fake deals, then traded for millions
Several companies, involved in a fraudulent scheme, exploited fake contracts to import labor to Malaysia, subsequently selling their quotas for...
Vulnerable and Unprotected: The Plight of Girls with Intellectual Disabilities in Nepal
Desperate Measures: Surgical Uterus Removal in Response to Escalating Sexual Violence.
Government’s ill-planned move puts future of 1.3 million children is at risk
Due to the government's lack of readiness for the complete enforcement of the Compulsory and Free Education Act-2075, scheduled to...
Millions spent on development of Badimalika, to no avail
In the Badimalika region of the Far West, despite an allocation of Rs. 380 million for tourism and infrastructure development,...
Politicians and land mafia join hands to encroach Pokhara lakes
Despite court orders to conserve the natural water bodies in the lake city, the government remains indifferent, turning a blind...
Unauthorised translation and piracy of foreign books thrive in Nepal
The phenomenon has not just hurt creativity but also caused losses to authorised translators and publishers. There is law but...
The biometric heist: fingerprint fraudsters targeting properties
The availability of fake rubber fingerprints in the Indian market along the Nepal border has led to many cases of...
Desperate youths from ‘base areas’ of Maoist insurgency chase the American dream
Villages that were the epicentre of the Maoist insurgency waged against ‘American imperialism’, among other things, have fallen into the...
Lawmakers in Sudurpaschim province took millions in Illegal perks
Parliamentarians of the Sudurpaschim Province, who received benefits not authorised by law, collected 13 million rupees in the last five...
Revealed: the intermediaries and companies behind Nepal Airlines US$ 216m Airbus purchase
A new investigation by CIJ Nepal and Finance Uncovered can today reveal the key individuals and opaque offshore structures behind...
Rolpa: The struggle to save children
Poverty and lack of access to health institutions have led many residents of Rolpa to lose their newborns even as...
Thousands of bighas of land in Dang appropriated illegally
Almost 19,000 bighas of land belonging to individuals, institutions and the government remain appropriated illegally. Having begun during the Maoist...
The dark side of remittance
The money sent by millions of Nepalis in foreign employment helps their families and also the country’s economy. But there’s...
Jajarkot’s ‘comrade village’ is mired in poverty, deprivation and discrimination
Former Maoist combatants waged the 10-year insurgency against ‘feudal’ creditors. Now the same creditors are evicting them from their own...