Devaki Bist

International concern has emerged regarding the substances used to set fire to the Parliament Building, Supreme Court, Singha Durbar and the President's Office during the Gen-Z protests on September 8 and 9 last year. An investigation by the Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network (NIMJN) has revealed that petroleum products were used to ignite these structures.

Due to the government repeatedly appointing officials to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) through political quotas, rather than selecting competent, qualified and impartial individuals, conflict victims have failed to receive justice and reparations even two decades after the peace agreement.

Namita Badi (name changed) was just 16 years old when she was rescued in 2016 from a bar in Pune, India where she had been working for the past two years. She had left her home in Satti a few years back with her parents and reached Mumbai from Tikunia via Mathura. “I was left with no choice but to follow my family and do what was expected of me. Initially, I started doing some labor work but since it began getting difficult to sustain, I got into sex work,” she shares.