by Mahesh KC in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 28, 2023A 12-year-old boy from Banke Pipalgaura in ward 14 of Athbiskot Municipality lost his mother in the November 3 earthquake. His world hasn’t been the same again. The boy, who lives under a tarpaulin tent with his father and two older brothers, can be mostly seen lost in thought. His father, Naru Malla, has been trying to pull his son back from his thoughts and get…
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report in Khaama Press online, Dec 24, 2023The latest report from the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the situation of children in Afghanistan reveals that alongside the deprivation of millions of girls from education, thousands of cases of violence against children have been recorded from January 2021 to December 2022, including kidnapping, murder, abuse, and sexual assault of children. This report covers the period from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2022, during which…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 23, 2023The United Nations reports that despite a decrease in conflicts in Afghanistan, children remain in an extremely vulnerable situation. The organization has called on the Taliban to recognize individuals under 18 years old as children and prevent their recruitment into security forces. The United Nations in a report released on Friday, has stated that over two years, from the beginning of 2021 to the end of 2022, a…
report in The Himalayan Times, Nov 9, 2023KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 8Ramita Thapa, a resident of Nalgad Municipality-3, hastily fled her home with her two children when the earthquake struck on the night of November 3. While escaping, she injured her leg. Her house collapsed due to the tremor, leaving her homeless. She now resides under a tarpaulin tent along the road in Nayabasti, Khalanga, the district headquarters. Thapa’s trauma has taken a toll on her mental…
report in Nepalnews.com, Nov 6, 2023 at13.44hrs: Almost half of those killed in the earthquake on Friday were children, it has been found. According to data from the police, 78 of the 157 people killed in the quake on the night of November 3 were children. Of the deceased children, 50 died in Jajarkot and 28 in Rukum West due to the quake, said Deputy Superintendent of Police Santosh Roka. Twenty-eight of 52 people who…
By Fidel Rahmaati in The Khaama Press Online, October 22, 2023Aladdin Orphanage, a part of the government-run housing institution designed primarily to accommodate orphaned girls and children, has been transformed into a religious school following the resurgence of the Taliban. Salma, a recent graduate from the orphanage, told the Khaama Press News Agency that approximately 48 girls reside in this facility. According to Salma, at least 25 of them are younger girls from the sixth…
by Moudud Ahmmed Sujan in The Daily Star, Sept 30, 2023Unauthorised companies are smuggling a number of cardiac medical devices into the country and selling those to some of Dhaka’s top public and private hospitals without proper vetting, raising questions about health regulations and patient safety. Over the last one and a half years, these unauthorised devices were used to treat children with congenital heart defects at the government-run National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and…
by Shiva Puri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 15, 2023Ever since her nine-year-old daughter went missing four months ago, Tetari Kumari Mahato has been having sleepless nights. The 35-year-old mother, a resident of ward 6 of Garuda Municipality, has been eagerly waiting for any news about her daughter, who went missing on May 3. It was noon and Tetari had been catching a nap while her daughter was out playing with her friends. “My husband…
report in The Daily Star, Aug 14, 2023Thirty-four Rohingyas, mostly children, were rescued when they were being gathered in Cox’s Bazar Central Bus Terminal area for trafficking, police said. Two suspected human traffickers were also detained from the spot. Among the rescued people, 16 are children, aged between one to five, 10 women and eight men, Officer-in-Charge of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Model Police Station Rafiqul Islam told The Daily Star. They all are residents of…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 25, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who chairs the CPN (Maoist Centre), the party that waged a decade-long people’s war, has refuted allegations that he used child combatants during the insurgency. Writing a response to a writ petition filed at the Supreme Court claiming that child combatants were used during the Maoist insurgency, Dahal refuted the allegations and said that no document of the peace process…
Blood of our children
by Farrukh Khan Pitafi in The Express Tribune, Dec 16th, 2023.The writer is an Islamabad-based TV journalist.……December 16 will remain a day of infamy in the annals of Pakistani history for two reasons. First, the loss of its eastern wing. Second, the murder of our children by terrorists. Our collective imagination has found interesting ways to deal with this double whammy. For the fall of East Pakistan, we have found ways to reinvent history. Day…