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Aug 2007

Strike shuts Nepal capital
AFP -
At the bottom of Nepal's caste hierarchy, and making up around five million of Nepal's 27 million people, the Dalits are demanding that 20 per cent of all ...

The Need of the Hour is a Resisting Alignment Worldwide. Nothing Less!
indiainteracts.com - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
In India, in
Nepal, in Pakistan, in Bangladesh the dalits are fighting for human and civil rights. but we have no coordination, not even a national network. ...

Sieze the Time!
indiainteracts.com - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Survival depends on arresting the time with stiff resistance, an anti imperialist anti Brahminical, anti apartheid global Dalit Black Movement. ...

';Proportional representation makes polls meaningful'
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Meanwhile,
Nepal Dalit Liberation Front (United) has announced that it will further intensify the upcoming protest programmes for fulfilling the basic ...

Markets slump and inequality
Economic Times - India
Are illiterate Dalit women, the most oppressed and powerless section of our population, ecstatic that the stock market slump has improved income ...

Nepal: Physical action the only option, Dalits
Telegraphnepal.com - Kathmandu,Bagmati,Nepal
The
Nepal Dalit Liberation Front (United) has vowed to conduct their forth-coming protest programs more forceful. The Dalit Front in the month of ...

Tharuwan protestors vandalize two buses in Dang
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
Meanwhile, normal life in Mahottari district has been affected due to a bandh called by the Dalit and indigenous groups today. Vehicles couldn't ply the ...

Indigenous group comes up with 9-point Palpa charter
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
By
Madhav
Aryal PALPA, Aug 27 - The federation of Nepal's indigenous and ethnic people, Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN), ... 

Separate Strikes Hit Life in Few Terai Districts
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
A bandh called by the Dalit Janajati Party affected life in few districts in the eastern and mid Terai region today. The party called the bandh demanding ...

Minority groups lead strike in Nepal's capital in fight for more ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
... in collaboration with the United Dalit Republican Front, a minority group fighting for equal status for low-caste minorities in Nepal's Hindu society. ...

Maoists shut down central Nepal, bandits do so in Terai
Indian Muslims - San Diego,CA,USA
... Nepal, including Kathmandu valley and the capital, were severely impacted by the closure called by the Maoist-affiliated Samyukta Ganatantrik Dalit ...

General strike shuts down Nepalese capital
Earthtimes.org - USA
United Republican Dalit Front, a group representing the marginalised class of people, and Tamang National Republican Front called the strike demanding ...

NEPAL:Madhes also under the grips of bandh
Media For Freedom - Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
While the valley bandh
imposed by the Samyukta Ganatantrik Dalit Mukti Morcha and Tamang Rastriya Mukti Morcha has thrown the normal life out of gear in ...

NC forms NDA ad hoc committee
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
... Committee under the chairmanship of Khadga Bahadur Basyal (Sarki) by dissolving the Central Working Committee of the Nepal Dalit Association (NDA). ...

Jana Morcha leader attacked in Mahottari
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
24: District vice president of Jan
Morcha
Nepal Dinesh Regmi was physically assaulted Thursday night, and the Jantantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM) Goit ...

Nepal Bandh called off after 5 pm
Media For Freedom - Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
The bandh (shutdown strike) called by Samyukta Ganatantrik Dalit Mukti Morcha and the Maoist-affiliated Tamang Rastriya Mukti Morcha in Bagmati Zone has ...

Strike shuts Kathmandu
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
... chairman of the Dalit Joint Republican Front. At the bottom of Nepal's caste hierarchy, and making up around five million of Nepal's 27 million people, ...

Nepal women strip to protest prostitution tradition
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
About 400 women from the impoverished Badi community in the plains of southwest Nepal had come to the capital, Kathmandu, to demand the government end the ...

Life in Capital Affected Due to Bandh
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
Samyukt Ganatantrik Dalit Mukti Morcha and Tamang Rastriya Mukti Morcha called Nepal bandh has severely affected life in the capital. ...

Strikes cripple normal life in central, eastern Nepal
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
The capital was paralysed till the evening due to a banda jointly called by the pro-Maoist Joint Republican Dalit Front (JRDF) and Tamang National ...

HIGHER EDUCATION IN NEPAL; TRUTH AND CHALLENGES
Telegraphnepal.com - Kathmandu,Bagmati,Nepal
Poor, brilliant and needy students from the marginalized, dalit and janjati groups should be encouraged to acquire higher education for social and economic ...

Better late than never: Parties working on election manifesto
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Restructuring of the state by liberating the peasants, dalit, indigenous nationalities, Madhesi, women and other marginal groups would be incorporated in ...

Bandh affects life in the capital
Nepalnews.com - Kathmandu,Nepal
The bandh imposed by the Samyukta Ganatantrik Dalit Mukti Morcha and Tamang Rastriya Mukti Morcha has affected the normal life in the capital valley. ...

Madhesi Women Face Challenges in Nepal
Nepal Monitor - Statesboro,GA,USA
Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in
Nepal, addressed the Madhesi Women's National Conference in Chitwan on 17 August 2007. ...

Banda cripples life in Chitwan
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
CHITWAN, Aug 18 - Normal life in Chitwan was affected since Saturday morning as the Maoist-aligned Samyukt Ganatantrik Dalit Mukti Morcha (SGDMM) called for ...

Flood disaster in southern Asia: Malteser International boosts ...
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Together with its Indian partner organisation Unnati, Malteser International distributes food to 1000 Dalit families in the district of Khagaria. ...                                 

Govt asked to do more for cause of Dalits
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Speaking at a talk programme 'Nepal`s Dalit Movement and Friendship with India,' they said Indian leaders voicing for the Dalit rights had always helped in ...                

Speaker seeks whereabouts of disappeared people
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Kamala Panta Acharya of Nepali Congress accused the CPN-Maoists of manhandling Ramesh Sunuwar, a dalit student of Gorkha district recently. ...

Nepal: Police Arrest Dalits
Nepal human Rights News - Kathmandu,Nepal
Kathmandu, August 9: Police arrested more than two dozen activists of the Dalit Civil Society Movement when they were trying to stage demonstration at the ...

ICDR Condemns murder of Dalit activist
Nepalnews.com - Kathmandu,Nepal
"The ICDR appeals
Nepal Government to ensure healthy security environment for Dalit Rights Defenders, so they could carry out their work effectively without ...

Opening Up Opportunities
Media For Freedom - Nepal,Nepal,Nepal
Bhujel
, a Dalit, is now sending his two sons to a private boarding school hoping to give quality education to them. "Although Maoist conflict forced me to ...

MPs demand govt response
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Anjana
Bisangkhe of Jana Morcha Nepal (JMN) asked response from Home Minister regarding action against the group named Goman Singh which abducted a cadre of ...

Communities struggle to cope with monsoon flooding in Nepal
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
The villagers, mainly subsistence farmers from the marginalized Dalit community, took refuge on the relatively high and dry road that runs near their ...

Martin Hails Govt-Janajati Pact
Himalayan Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
... to mark the Nepal Adivasi Janajati Mahasangh Day, he urged the government to accord the same treatment to all indigenous, Madhesi, and Dalit sections of ...

Interpreting The Terai Revolt
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
The landlords, feudal and elite Madhesis have been meting out injustice against the ethnic, Dalit and poor Madhesis, who will surely wage a fight against ...

Dalit activists arrested in capital
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Five million
Dalits
of Nepal are demanding proportional representation and whose demands were completely sidelined by the Interim Constitution. ...

One-party monopoly in govt media to be ended
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
... was planning to expand Radio Nepal and Nepal Television to the remote areas of the country and launch different programmes focusing on the dalit, ...

EC keeps eyes on parties
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
He said this while speaking at a programme organized by Dalit Women Association on 'participation of dalit women in the CA process'. ...

Govt, NEFIN to explore inclusive CA options : NEFIN withdraws ...
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
By A Staff Reporter Kathmandu, Aug 7: The government and the
Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) signed a 20-point agreement Tuesday with ...

Economic, Social Structures Nepal Terai Conflict
Nepal Monitor - Statesboro,GA,USA
As the present Terai uprising is a struggle for political representation, and not for socio-economic change, we may in the future expect to see a Dalit ...

Parliament passes civil service bill
Kantipur Online - Kathmandu,Nepal
It has opened doors to address our demands in future," said
Bhawani
Thani, President of Nepal Civil Service Employees' Union. Likewise, Ganesh Basyal ...

Melamchi 'number one' Project: Yami
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
Minister
Bishwokarma
informed that the Ministry had different programmes on women empowerment and gender-equality, especially focused on dalit women, ...

The revolt of the aristocrats
Nepali Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
Donor support has been channelled for dalit consciousness, gender rights activism, identity politics, social inclusion, and the kamaiya struggle. ...

Minister seeks to declare schools zone of peace
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
2: Minister for Education and Sports,
Pradip
Nepal has urged all Regional Education Directorates and all District Education Offices to present a joint ...

Half revolution
Nepali Times - Kathmandu,Nepal
Through the 240 seats based on proportional representation the Nepali people will be represented as madhesi (31.2 percent), dalit (13 percent), janajati, ...