Has our window of opportunity closed?
Send us Fan Mail Building back better. The green recovery. Sustainable transformation. It seems I’ve been reading those phrases time and again during the past pandemic year. And sometimes I wonder if ...
8 Mar 202128min
Building roads to development: who gets passed by?
Send us Fan Mail When I first moved to Nepal 16 years ago every few years I would read a report in the daily newspaper about the road network reaching a remote village. The driver and passengers would...
24 Feb 202135min
Who is not paying for climate change?
Send us Fan Mail Nearly 200 countries, Nepal included, are scheduled to meet in Scotland in November to discuss how to respond to climate change. One of the items on the agenda will be how much money ...
9 Feb 202135min
UPDATE: What happened to Nepal's rape law?
Send us Fan Mail Advocates for women were excited last year when they heard that changes were coming to Nepal’s rape law, which has long been criticized as ineffective. On this show we spoke to youth ...
28 Jan 202120min
On the rights path: Mohna Ansari
Send us Fan Mail I’ve followed human rights issues for much of my career. I even worked for the UN human rights office in Nepal soon after the civil war ended in the mid-2000s. Back then, Nepal’s own ...
8 Jan 202138min
Truth and compensation are also justice for war victims
Send us Fan Mail To its credit the Nepali media has written regularly about successive governments’ lack of action on transitional justice since the Comprehensive Peace Accord was signed in 2006. Repo...
8 Jan 202132min
Young activists will endure rape culture no longer
Send us Fan Mail ‘The rapist is you’. On October 10th a group of about 20 young women dressed in black took over a street in Kathmandu pointed straight ahead accusingly, and performed the anti-rape so...
4 Des 202035min
‘As strong as Everest’: Engaging the private sector to fight malnutrition
Send us Fan Mail In 2019, 19-year-old girls in Nepal were the third shortest in the world, found a recent study by the journal The Lancet that ranked 200 countries. That’s not simply a genetic thing:...
12 Nov 202039min
