When Justice Delays Justice: How Structural Judicial Failures Harm Human Rights in South Asia
In South Asia, the courts are often the last and only place to turn to for justice. But what happens when the institutions entrusted with upholding rights become complicit in...
Lowering the Marital Age of Nepal: Controversy Estopped on Protection against Child Marriages?
Moving into a controversial circle, on January 15, 2025, the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives proposed to bring down the marital age from 20...
Periods, Climate, and the Politics of Sustainability
Discussion on sustainable menstrual health management, without adequately considering lived realities compounded by the climate crisis, may unfairly place a disproportionate burden on menstruating individuals in the Global South. The...
Nepal registers First Same-Sex Marriage: A Glimmer of Hope for Global LGBTQIA+
On 29 November 2023, Nepal became the second Asian Country to register a same-sex marriage after Taiwan. This represents a significant development in the struggle for marriage equality for the...
Judgment of the Supreme Court of Nepal to Protect the Chure range: Widespread Environmental Destruction Deemed Ecocide
Image description: a forested area of the Chure range in Nepal In Sailendra Ambedkar v. Office of Prime Minister et. al., the Constitutional bench of Supreme Court of Nepal gave...
365 Days to Access Justice: Nepal’s Precarious Rape Law Provision
Image Description: A poster which says ‘End Violence Against Women’ in block letters. The statute of limitation to file a complaint, in the case of rape in Nepal, forms part...
Intersectional Inequalities and Reproductive Rights: An India-Nepal Comparison
Recent judgments from India and Nepal are steeped in an intersectional understanding of inequality as a necessary approach to realise women’s reproductive rights....
The 9 Point Agreement and the Fate of the Transitional Justice System in Nepal
For more than a decade, Nepal had undergone a conflict between the security forces and the Maoist political movement led by the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M). The conflict ended...
