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Thursday, July 20, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women in politics: redefining representation and empowering others
Online Khabar
Nepal transitioned into a federal state of government after the promulgation of the Constitution of Nepal in 2015. One remarkable achievement since this shift has been the significant arrival of women in politics. A total of 14,352 (40.96 per cent)...
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Source: Bond
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Women’s political participation must move beyond quotas
Bond
Increasing the proportion of women in political decision-making has long been an admirable goal in peacebuilding and development. However, new research from International Alert shows why we must move beyond quotas and start challenging the...
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The Kathmandu Post
Monday, February 06, 2023
Nepal: Landmark bill to boost women candidacy in polls
The Kathmandu Post
Election Commission is drafting a bill to increase women’s candidacy in all three tiers of government by a third. At least one third of the elected representatives in the federal parliament must be women, as per the Constitution of Nepal. The...
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Nepal: New House of Representatives to be less inclusive (Picture: The Kathmandu Post)
Monday, December 05, 2022
Nepal: New House of Representatives to be less inclusive
The Kathmandu Post
As proportional representation votes are scattered among parties, women, Dalits, Janajatis will be underrepresented. With most Dalit, Janajati and women candiates across parties failing to win the first-past-the-post (FPTP) elections for the House...
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Nepal: Women candidates in HoR and PA elections of 2079 BS (Picture: My Republica)
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Nepal: Women candidates in HoR and PA elections of 2079 BS
My Republica
KATHMANDU, Nov 25: Five women candidates have been elected to the House of Representatives (HoR) in the elections held on November 20. According to the data of the Election Commission (EC), women candidates were elected from five constituencies...
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Nepal: Women’s share in House likely to shrink (Picture: The Kathmandu Post)
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Nepal: Women’s share in House likely to shrink
The Kathmandu Post
With few women FPTP candidates, more of them may need to be elected to the upper house to meet the requirement. Cross-party women politicians have long been lobbying with their leaders to increase the number of female candidates in the first-past-...
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Nepal: Major political parties fall short to ensure gender parity in politics (Nepal Live Today)
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Nepal: Major political parties fall short to ensure gender parity in politics
Nepal Live Today
Almost all political parties have an extremely lower ratio of women to men candidates fielded under the first-past-the-post category in the upcoming elections. Kathmandu: The preliminary data released by the Election Commission, the country’s...
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Nepal: Women MPs, unite (Post Illustration)
Friday, September 30, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Nepal: Women MPs, unite
The Kathmandu Post
A new women’s parliamentary caucus is needed at a time when they are being brazenly discriminated. If one thing has remained unchanged in the history of Nepal’s democratic polity, it is the male-dominated political parties’ deliberate...
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Reena Kumari Shah (right) and Kaushalaya Devi (left), the now-elected mayors of Maulapur and Ishnath local level in Rautahat district. Photo: Prabhat Jha/THT
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Nepal: Women candidates elected as mayor in two Rautahat local levels
The Himalayan
The result announcement of elections held on May 13 have revealed two women candidates as the winners of mayoral elections in two local levels of Rautahat district.  Reena Kumari Shah and Kaushalaya Devi will hold office as mayors in Maulapur and...
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Hisila Yami being interviewed by AP about a Maoist garbage removal program in Thamel, Kathmandu, October 8, 2010. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Neil Horning
Friday, May 13, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A long way to go for gender equality in Nepali politics
The Diplomat
Nepal has progressive laws and quotas for women’s representation in politics, but patriarchy and gender discrimination run deep and influence the decisions of parties. On April 28, misogyny in Nepal’s politics and society was on full display during...
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Nepal: Women leaders from across the political spectrum say they feel constrained - The Kathmandu Post
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Nepal: Women leaders from across the political spectrum say they feel constrained
The Kathmandu Post
Their representation in local elections has been trimmed but they cannot speak up. Female politicians say the fight will continue though. Out of 46,693 nominations for executive positions at the local level —mayor, deputy mayor, chairpersons and...
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Nepal: Election Commission revokes provision to compulsorily field woman candidate - Nepal Live Today
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Nepal: Election Commission revokes provision to compulsorily field woman candidate
Nepal Live Today
The commission rescinded the decision after the political parties protested against the provision stating that it is against existing laws. The Election Commission has revoked a provision that mentioned that a political party contesting for only the...
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Saraswoti Nepali, ward member, Shiwalaya Rural Municipality, Karnali Provinc - International IDEA
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Meaningful inclusion demands constant investment, but female local officials have barely got it
International IDEA
The 22 years old Saraswati Nepali is the mom of two kids and lives approximately five hours' drive (and five hours walk) away from the headquarter of Karnali Province, Surkhet—a place that paid the heaviest of prices in the 10 year-long armed...
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While the inclusive principles were applied in selection of lower-levels leaders, top leadership continued to be in the hands of the traditional elite groups. Credits: the Annapurna Express
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Nepali political parties far from inclusive
The Annapurna Express
In line with the inclusive principles enshrined in the Constitution of Nepal 2015, the three major political parties—in their recently held general conventions—included cluster-wise inclusion in their central committees (CCs). Yet while the...
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Women leaders set example for rest of Nepal
Nepal Times
After the first elections under federalism in 2017, Hupsekot became one of only two municipalities in Nepal in which women were voted both chair and deputy. Laxmi Pandey of the Nepali Congress was elected chair, and Kopila Malla of the UML was voted...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Women politicians go unheard when they speak out but are ostracised if they oppose party narrative
The Kathamandu Post
Sarita Giri, on Thursday, was officially expelled from the Samajbadi Party, and consequently as a Member of Parliament, in the culmination of a series of events over the past few weeks that illustrate just how difficult it is for outspoken women in...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
When women in politics meet women in media
The Himalayan Times
Women parliamentarians and other leaders in politics, on Sunday, discussed how people generally are less likely to recognise leadership qualities in women and stressed on the urgency to break this gender gap with female journalists, in Kathmandu....
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Friday, September 27, 2019
In Nepal, an uphill battle for gender parity
Swiss Info English
Female representation in Nepal's parliament has increased dramatically in the last 10 years. It’s the result of a far-reaching gender quota system in the Himalayan nation that has made the country’s Constitution one of the most politically...
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