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Kathmandu, Oslo
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Norway handled Covid better than Sweden - but it had nothing to do with lockdowns or masks

Norway handled Covid better than Sweden - but it had nothing to do with lockdowns or masks

The Telegraph — Norway confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on February 27, but it was not until mid-March that the country's prime minister, health minister, and the director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), went on national television and advised caution.
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Shaking up the status quo in Nepal's queer movement | Mallika Aryal - শুদ্ধস্বর

Shaking up the status quo in Nepal's queer movement | Mallika Aryal - শুদ্ধস্বর

shuddhashar.com — "Language is power, and I see this as a change in the positive direction." It is late spring in Nepal's capital Kathmandu-the skies are overcast, unusual for that time of the year. A thick grey haze envelops the city. The wind is warm, the heat is dry.
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Being 20 in 2020: Oslo - Summer of Solidarity

Being 20 in 2020: Oslo - Summer of Solidarity

summerofsolidarity.eu — Rami Chumber was born in Oslo to a Moroccan father and Indian mother. He's active with Norway's Socialist Left Party, and was meant to be spending summer in Paris when the pandemic hit. You are not the first person I have brought to St. Hanshaugen park on a summer day like today.
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The pandemic as seen by two medics in Dailekh - The Record

The pandemic as seen by two medics in Dailekh - The Record

recordnepal.com — It is early morning in Dullu, Dailekh, when Dr Pooja BC's phone begins to ring. As one of four physicians at Dullu Hospital, she is on the frontline of Nepal's Covid-19 pandemic. Her phone continues to ring all day: she gets test reports from the lab and health coordinators in the district, and she coordinates logistics and stays updated on patients.
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Frontline struggles - The Record

Frontline struggles - The Record

recordnepal.com — In early June, Prakriti Bhattarai, a physician at the Siluchaur Primary Health Centre in Rolpa, far-west Nepal, went into quarantine. She is one of the two doctors in charge of 30,000 people in the village. A day earlier, Bhattarai and four others had taken samples from recent returnees, whose polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests came back positive from the lab.
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Stop rapid testing now

Stop rapid testing now

Nepali Times — A health worker conducting a PCR test in Rolpa's Siluchaur Primary Health Center which has switched completley to PCR tests because of teh unreliability of RDT. Photo: PRAKRITI BHATTARAI he deaths from COVID-19 in Nepal show a pattern. In mid-May a 22-year-old male was tested using rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and was negative for the [...]
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Mass quarantine systems have broken down - The Record

Mass quarantine systems have broken down - The Record

recordnepal.com — Over 100,000 Nepalis were expatriated from India to Nepal this past week, and the influx continues. As Nepal considers easing a nationwide lockdown, imposed to respond to the Covid19 pandemic, 400,000 migrants are expected to return, with 100,000 making their way back as early as this coming week.
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Cool, eco-friendly places to stay at in Norway - Routes North

Cool, eco-friendly places to stay at in Norway - Routes North

routesnorth.com — With ski tracks and hiking trails, plus opportunities for whale-spotting, northern lights-watching and dog-sledging, Norway is a dream destination for lovers of the outdoors. Despite the fact that its economy is heavily dependent on the export of oil, Norway is also a world-leader in the environmental movement, and is gaining popularity as a green, eco-friendly destination.
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Kamp mot omstridt lovforslag i Nepal: Er vi ikke å regne som fullverdige borgere?

Kamp mot omstridt lovforslag i Nepal: Er vi ikke å regne som fullverdige borgere?

bistandsaktuelt.no — I Nepal har kvinnediskriminerende regler om statsborgerskap store konsekvenser. Uten papirer på statsborgerskap er det ikke mulig å åpne bankkonto, ta en eksamen eller å skaffe seg et sim-kort til en mobil. Et nytt lovforslag skaper sterke reaksjoner.
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The battle to secure matrilineal citizenship rights in Nepal

The battle to secure matrilineal citizenship rights in Nepal

The Caravan — On a morning in early October last year, 42-year-old Deepti Gurung headed to the administrative office of her ward in Lalitpur, a municipality in the southern part of the Kathmandu valley. Her 20-year-old daughter, Neha, accompanied her, while her second child, 15-year-old Nikita, was at school.
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The identity crisis frustrating Nepal's quake survivors

The identity crisis frustrating Nepal's quake survivors

IRIN — Mento Ghale did what any parent would do when Nepal's 25 April earthquake struck her village of Mailung: she grabbed the children and got them out of the house as quickly as she could. It was a narrow escape.
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IRIN's Top Picks: Separation, compassion and re-shaping aid

IRIN's Top Picks: Separation, compassion and re-shaping aid

IRIN — Welcome to IRIN's weekly assortment of noteworthy humanitarian journalism and research, compiled by our editorial team. Five to read: From Somalia to Sweden: the refugee forced to live apart from his wife and child This is the sad tale of Amin Amey, a Somali who spent his life trying to leave Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, but on doing so found himself separated from his new wife and child by law.
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Clean Cookstoves Could Change the Lives of Millions in Nepal

Clean Cookstoves Could Change the Lives of Millions in Nepal

Inter Press Service — When 26-year-old Laxmi married into the Archaya household in Chhaimale village, Pharping, south of Nepal's capital Kathmandu, she didn't think she would be spending half the day in the kitchen inhaling smoke from the stove. "The smoke made me cough so much I couldn't breathe. It was difficult to cook," the young woman tells IPS.
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Q&A: Nepal's hydropower sector has takers

Q&A: Nepal's hydropower sector has takers

SciDev.Net — Twenty years ago, the World Bank pulled out of the 402 megawatts hydropower project, which was to be built in east Nepal. A small informal group, Alliance for Energy campaigned successfully against Arun III's development, arguing that the risks were huge and would push Nepal further into aid dependency.
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Nepal disaster preparedness needs to go local

Nepal disaster preparedness needs to go local

IRIN — Mid-summer monsoon rains in Nepal triggered over three dozen floods and landslides, killing over 200 people and displacing tens of thousands. Experts say this highlights preparedness and response challenges and the urgent need for these to be prioritized in development plans and at local government level.
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Little hope of justice for Nepal's war-time rape survivors

Little hope of justice for Nepal's war-time rape survivors

IRIN — For several weeks in July, veteran Nepali women's rights activist Renu Rajbhandari picketed in front of the Constituent Assembly, Nepal's legislative body in Kathmandu, demanding amendment of the country's rape laws. Nepal's May 2014 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Act ruled out amnesty for rape during the country's decade-long civil war that ended in 2006 with 16,000 dead and more than 100,000 displaced.
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Q&A: Exploring South Asian food, water and energy links

Q&A: Exploring South Asian food, water and energy links

SciDev.Net — Ensuring food security while providing access to safe drinking water and energy for all remains a key challenge in South Asia - home to a quarter of the world's population. Rice and wheat, the region's staple crops, require huge amounts of water and energy to grow.
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Rethinking Nepal's uterine prolapse treatment

Rethinking Nepal's uterine prolapse treatment

IRIN — The Nepal government's commitment to treat uterine prolapse, a debilitating life-long gynaecological condition, sparked an uptick in hysterectomies, but a new, less drastic low-cost intervention could spell hope for the thousands of Nepali women in need of treatment. Nepal's Supreme Court declared uterine prolapse a human rights issue in 2008, and in response the government pledged support for hysterectomies free of charge.
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Reviving Nepal with hybrid tomatoes

Reviving Nepal with hybrid tomatoes

SciDev.Net — Five years ago, diseases and storms during the monsoon season would wipe out the majority of Nepali tomato plantations. Discouraged, Nepali farmers slowly started abandoning tomato production. But the tomato is a big part of local cuisine, so Nepal had to import it from India.
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When Children Give Birth to Children

When Children Give Birth to Children

Inter Press Service — Radhika Thapa was just 16 years old when she married a 21-year-old boy three years ago. Now, she is expecting a baby and is well into the last months of her pregnancy. This is not the first time she has been with child - her first two pregnancies ended in miscarriages.
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Communicating climate change in Nepal

Communicating climate change in Nepal

SciDev.Net — Recent reports show Nepal's temperature will rise by up to 3 degrees Celsius in the next 40-90 years. The warming trends may result in heavy floods, landslides, forest fires, and soil erosion.
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Nepal Moves to Curb Child Labour

Nepal Moves to Curb Child Labour

Inter Press Service — Last December, Pradeep Dongol, child protection officer at the Kathmandu-based Children and Women in Social Service and Human Rights (CWISH), received an urgent call from one of the NGO's many offices in Nepal's sprawling capital city.
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Nepal Scores Low on Quality Education

Nepal Scores Low on Quality Education

Inter Press Service — Sabitri Kumari Das, a middle-aged mother of two, is rightfully worried about her two young daughters: both girls attend a public primary school in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, and neither one of them seems to be advancing academically. Das fears they stand no chance competing against their peers who attend the costly private schools that dot this city of 30 million people.
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Official arbiters

Official arbiters

himalmag.com — The censor boards of India, Nepal and Bangladesh remain more powerful than they should be. In an attempt to 'clean up' or 'maintain law and order', governments across Southasia are cracking down on films. Because of their mass appeal and easy accessibility, feature films have been bearing the brunt of this censorship, while such stringent standards are not generally applied to documentary films, which have thus far not been as accessible to the mass public.
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