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  1. Nepal: 'The changes don't belong to a party, but to the poor'

    hilly district in Nepal's mid-western region. It was here the "People's War" against ... every aspect of Nepal's politics and culture. The People's War, and the 2006 mass popular ... mostly treats the general public. Because of the central role of Rolpa in the People's War, it was ...

  2. Pro-pokie campaign not worth a punt

    un-Australian. So naturally I went home and investigated the matter, ready to go off to war against those evil ... assault on society. What is actually being proposed is not a 1984-style assault on our civil liberties. ... no one is trying to stop me putting a tenner on the Bulldogs for the footy on Saturdays (although the ...

  3. Young people changing Nepal

    war on Iraq. Resistance's constant activities around the climate change crisis are helping to ... soldiers receive. For women, the options have been even bleaker. The only work available for young women is ... sex work, mostly in India. Many young women and girls are either tricked into prostitution and sex ...

  4. Nepal: How to oust a king

    the People's War. The elections where finally held on April 10, in a very tense atmosphere. ... It's horrendous childhood mortality rate is on par with Iraq and the Palestinian West Bank. According ... drops as low as 35% for women. Nepal was ruled by as an absolute monarchy until 1951. In the 1940s ...

  5. No cuts, more funds-- education for all

    confidence and radical analysis sparked by the war soon spread to other issues. Feminism and women ... and some major regional centres on August 20. The protests will stand up against the planned cuts to ... themselves and relieving the tax burden on companies frees up space for more juicy tax cuts. This also helps ...

  6. Nepal: UN withdraws amid deadlock

    鈥渋nterim government鈥. The nation is on a knife鈥檚 edge, with the real danger of civil war if the political ... peace accords. On the other, there is mass involvement and participation of Nepalis, inclusion of women ... Nepal on January 18 over the importing of weapons from India. MK Nepal did not deny that military ...

  7. Nepalese Maoists set ambitious targets in budget

    Ben Peterson On September 19, Nepal's finance minister and member of the Communist Party of ... Nepal's adult literacy rate is below 50%; the level of illiteracy is worse among women. New schools and ... done to the health-care system during the 10 year war that ended in 2006, and health-care facilities ...

  8. Nepal: Maoists prepare for new upsurge

    ongoing demonstrations across the country in support of the Maoists, but the right-wing forces held on and ... Katawal was the peace process that ended a decade of civil war between the Maoist-led People's ... activists on how to go forward in its struggle to build a "New Nepal". The UCPN-M has sent more ...

  9. Nepal: Elite revolt threatens democracy

    is the moves, begun on April 19, by the Maoist-led coalition government to remove the Chief of Army ... despite constant media attacks on the government and its current inability to implement most of its ... People's Rights Forum. The popular uprising and a Maoist-led "people's war" brought down ...