Early ‘Love Marriage’ and the Big, Bad Internet
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...
सूचना प्रविधी ऐनमा यौनिकता र लैगिंकताको सवाल
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...
The problem with Nepal’s porn ban
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...