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May 2008
The Maobaadi triumph
The Daily Star -
... explained most significantly by demographic shifts in Nepali
society. These delivered a wave of support straight into the Maoist hands from the dalit, ...
Dalit hopes he won’t have to live
like an outcast
Himalayan Times
- Kathmandu,Nepal
Talking to The Himalayan Times, Bijay, a Dalit, said the Tarun Dal and former president
of the Nepal Students’ Union (NSU) Viswa Prakash Sharma took the ...
Bizarre Bazaar: May 28 08
South Asian
Post, Canada - Richmond,British Columbia,Canada
Activists of a Dalit organization attacked several newspaper offices
Monday over an article published by a local newspaper chain about the
‘untouchables. ...
Family entertainment
Hindustan Times -
Spending a night with a Dalit family may be an attractive ph oto-op, but
it isn’t the kind of hands-on dynamic leadership that the Congress desperately ...
Baban Singh shows up at relative’s house
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
RAUTAHAT, May 30 - One of Nepal’s most
wanted criminal suspects, who is now a Constituent
Assembly member, Baban Singh appeared in public Friday at ...
Dalit CA member feted
Gorkhapatra -
... untouchability system in
The new Madhesi woman
Nepali Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
The gates have been opened in Nepal now
and, seeing the new women MPs, it is only a matter of time before more
independent women come to the forefront. ...
Women In Constituent Assembly
Gorkhapatra -
Similarly, four are dalits, six are Madhesis, one is a Madhesi dalit,
one represents the backward community while 11 are from other groups. ...
Nepali Congress (NC) has directed its
sister wings to hold protest ...
Nepalnews.com
- Kathmandu,Nepal
The party has directed Nepal Tarun Dal and Nepal Women's
Association to hold demonstration on May 23 and 24, respectively. Likewise, trade union, Dalit and ...
Nepal: Overturning the legacy of
war - priorities for effective ...
ReliefWeb (press
release) - Geneva,Switzerland
... the Nepal Police consisted of approximately 50000 officers;
of this only 0.2 percent were drawn from the Dalit
community or other underrepresented ...
Students walk 4 hours to go to schools
Gorkhapatra -
Many students have dropped school, said Basnet, adding most of them are from dalit
and impoverished families. Teaching is hampered as the only school is so ...
Nepal Maoists burn Prachanda's
effigy
NDTV.com
-
The effigy was burnt over the issue of nominating representatives from Madhesi
and Dalit communities to the Constituent Assembly
(CA). For the first time, ...
Maoists burn Prachanda's effigy in Nepal
Times of India -
... in southern
Nepal: Women activists demand proper representation in
CA
Telegraphnepal.com
- Kathmandu,Bagmati,Nepal
Women representatives of Women Security Pressure Group, Institute of Human
Rights Communication, Dalit Women’s Association, Women for Human Rights,
...
Royal properties to local communities
Kantipur Online
-
BY KIRAN CHAPAGAIN KATHMANDU, May 12 - The Office
of
Paswan takes Dalit debate to New
York
Calcutta
Telegraph -
...
Despatches to distant lands
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The articles seek to cover other turbulent South Asian countries like
Community Radio to give voice to the
voiceless people
MyNews.in
-
Photo: Narsamma and her team of Dalit women
run full-fledged community radio station in
Machnoor, Medak District, Andhra
Pradesh. They said, the prospect of ...
Students travel the world to work for
peace
Skidmore College News -
The students will work closely with the Association of Dalit
Women's Advancement in
Polls give Nepal women special
joy this Mother’s Day
Thaindian.com
-
In Kaski district in central
How to win the Bihar Elections
Sify -
Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
The Senas are to be used discreetly in Dalit, SC, ST and pockets
dominated by Naxals. each candidate will submit lists of booths where Senas
should be ...
Students-called strike cripples life in Udayapur
Kantipur Online -
... strike called by
Baban wants repeal of all charges
Kantipur Online
-
... a 15-year dalit girl, Shiva Dulari Chaiman, in Bramhapuri
India in its Nepali backyard
Open Democracy -
Like the three other civil-rights movements currently on their way in
Jha elected new FNJ president
Nepalnews.com
-
Yashoda Timsina, Diwakar Bagchand, Raj Kumar Dikpal, and Mahesh Das have been
elected from women, Dalit, Janajati and Madhesi quota. ...
Jha new FNJ president
Himalayan Times
- Kathmandu,Nepal
... Yashoda Timsina from women’s quota and Diwakar Bagchanda from the Dalit
quota. Other executive members are: Ujir Magar and Jagat
Children from HIV-infected parents get free education
Gorkhapatra -
...
NC, UML keep EC officials waiting beyond
deadline
Himalayan Times
-
Narayana ask Maoists to contest in polls
Andhra Cafe -
Nepal: Combating Violence against Dalit Women of
the Terai
Telegraphnepal.com
- Kathmandu,Bagmati,Nepal
Many of the Dalit organizations in
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