by Body & Data | Apr 4, 2020 | Access, Information
Misinformation and disinformation around COVID-19 do more harm than the corona virus itself as it restricts one from getting accurate information about health care and disease prevention. It has increased targeted online hate speech toward individuals who are infected...
by Body & Data | Mar 26, 2020 | Consent, Memory, Privacy & Data, Resistance
The corona pandemic isn’t a purely medical issue, it entangles all aspects of human lives, including our privacy, protection and dignity. Recently, the list of passengers who flew in the same flight from France to Nepal with the woman who tested positive, along...
by Body & Data | Jul 22, 2019 | Access, Consent, Expression
The prevalence of early marriage in Nepal remains high. UNICEF reports that 37% of girls in Nepal marry before age 18, of which 10% are married by age 15. In 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on the prevalence of child marriages in Nepal. The main...
by Body & Data | May 22, 2019 | Amplify, Expression, Movement Building
नेपाल सरकारले प्रस्तावमा ल्याएको सूचना तथा प्रविधी ऐनको मस्यौदामा लैगिंकता र यौनिकताको आँखाबाट केलाउदै सो ऐनले महिला, पिछडिएको वर्ग र यौनिक अल्पसंख्यकलाई कस्तो असर पार्नसक्छ भन्नेबारे बडि एण्ड डाटाका प्रतिनिधी साथीहरु शुभ कायस्थ र रीता बरामुबाट केही धारणाहरु यस...
by Body & Data | May 13, 2019 | Expression, Information, Sexual Expression
On 21 September 2018, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology declared that it was going to ban digital pornography. It claimed that the premise for the ban was article 121 of the Criminal Code of 2074 which states that “the internet has made it easy to...
