Getty Images A teacher gives a lesson to rescued girls in the Shakti Samuha safe ... the northern edge of the green valley that cradles Nepal's capital - are hidden behind cloud and fog.

It’s believed participating girls will be free from health problems. The rituals involve a Buddhist guru, a Tantrik Karmacharya, and a Brahmin. Nepal’s unique tradition of worshipping the ...

It is estimated that only one-third of women who experience physical or sexual violence seek help. As well as partner violence, trafficking and street harassment, women and girls in Nepal experience ...

Only in the remote mountain fastness of Nepal did the practice of glorifying prepubescent girls (in Nepali the word “kumari” means “virgin girl”) as living goddesses for years at a time ...

Nepal banned the traditional practice of exiling menstruating women and girls from the family home in 2005, and criminalised it in 2017 - but it remains widespread in rural areas. In January ...

Renowned martial artist Cheetah Yajnesh Shetty trained 18,000 girls and women in a two-hour session in a self-defense ...

A girls' hostel building built on the premises of a higher secondary school in Nepal with India's grant assistance of NRs 32.36 million was inaugurated on Monday, May 27. The grant under Nepal ...