Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

Climate change and biodiversity are rightly on the top of the agenda in terms of key concerns felt and experienced by young people in Nepal. Yet there is another agenda that should worry and preoccupy ...

Caste discrimination remains a persistent issue in Nepal, and members of the Dalit community are still victims of many abuses. While there have been considerable improvements following the civil war ...

Discrimination against individuals based on caste would seem to be a relic of the past. Even in India, where the caste system was most rigid, the practice has been officially banned since 1950.

Nepal, May 12 -- based discrimination is so entrenched in Nepal, even the country's legal system fails to see it as a crime. Recently, in the infamous Soti lynchings-in which Nabaraj BK and his five ...