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Asia Foundation’s George Varughese Speaks with Channel NewsAsia on Nepal Elections
The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Nepal George Varughese speaks with Channel NewsAsia presenter Steve Lai on key issues for voters in Nepal’s November 19 general elections. View the interview here: “Election day bomb in Nepal capital injures 3.” [...]
Debating Amnesty and Reconciliation in Nepal
The last several weeks have witnessed the unfolding of an unfortunate chain of events in Nepal with regard to a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The commitment to form a TRC was part of the 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord, which ended a decade-long conflict between State and Maoist forces. After this long wai [...]
New Idea of Politics Needed For a Stable Nepal
Nepal has been in a state of transition since 1950. In the ensuing years, a relatively brief, decade-long romance with democracy ended in three decades of single-party, autocratic rule. Since the restoration of multiparty, democratic politics just over 20 years ago, we have had 20 prime ministers, a decade-long civil w [...]
Stateless in New Nepal: Inclusion without Citizenship is Impossible
Last week, Nepal’s Constituent Assembly (CA) members drafted citizenship provisions in the country’s long-awaited constitution, causing much consternation and almost guaranteeing that approximately 2.1 million persons out of an estimated population of nearly 30 million will remain stateless. Nepal’s citizenship laws a [...]
VOA News: George Varughese Highlights Nepal’s Historic Deal
An article in Voice of America focuses on a historic agreement in Nepal where the country’s leading political parties have agreed to integrate former Maoist combatants into the military. George Varughese, The Asia Foundation’s country representative in Nepal, explains the importance of this deal. Read the full article: [...]
The UK Turns High-Level Attention to Nepal’s Fight Against Gender-Based Violence
On June 12, the UK’s Equalities Minister, Lynne Featherstone, arrived in Kathmandu on a three-day visit to share her experiences in combating violence against women and to learn how Nepal is tackling the issue. Heralded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) as the new “Violence Against Women Champ [...]