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Women In The Nepalese Civil War
Women were a significant group who were involved in the Maoist movement during the Nepalese Civil War, which refers to a violent insurgency that took place from 1996 to 2006. The insurgency was led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (1994), Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (Nepali language, Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (माओवादी-केन्द्र), or CPN (M-C) with the aim of establishing a People's Republic and ending the rule of the Kingdom of Nepal, Nepalese Monarchy. During this time, over 13,000 civilians and public officials were murdered, approximately 200,000 were displaced, and numerous others were tortured, extorted, and intimidated. Although the majority of Maoist insurgents were men, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre), Maoist Party claimed that up to 40 percent of their 19,000 combatants were women. This was regarded as an unprecedented move at the time, given that women were forbidden from f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepalese Civil War
The Nepalese Civil War was a protracted armed conflict that took place in the then Kingdom of Nepal from 1996 to 2006. It saw countrywide fighting between the Kingdom rulers and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), with the latter making significant use of guerrilla warfare. The conflict began on 13 February 1996, when the CPN (Maoist) initiated an insurgency with the stated purpose of overthrowing the Nepali monarchy and establishing a people's republic; it ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord on 21 November 2006. The civil war was characterized by numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity, including summary executions, massacres, purges, kidnappings, and mass rapes. It resulted in the deaths of over 17,000 people, including civilians, insurgents, and army and police personnel; and the internal displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly throughout rural Nepal. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has received about 63,000 compla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devi Khadka
Devi Khadka is a Nepali activist, former Maoist rebel, and parliamentarian, known for her advocacy on behalf of survivors of wartime sexual violence. Born in Dolakha, Nepal, in 1979, Khadka became involved in the Maoist insurgency during Nepal's civil conflict, which lasted from 1996 to 2006. Life and career Her life was marked by severe personal trauma; in 1997, at the age of 17, she was brutally tortured and raped by government forces seeking information about her brother, a local Maoist leader. Despite this, Khadka emerged as a prominent figure in the Maoist movement, eventually becoming a platoon leader and later stepping into her brother's political role after his death in 2002. Following the end of the conflict, she was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 2008, representing the Maoist party. However, Khadka has expressed regret over not speaking out for survivors of sexual violence during her time in office. Determined to seek justice for herself and others, Khadka has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In Nepal
The status of women in Nepal has varied throughout history. In the early 1990s, like in some other Asian countries, women in Nepal were generally subordinate to men in virtually every aspect of life. Historically, Nepal has been a predominantly patriarchal society where women are generally subordinate to men. Men were considered to be the leader of the family and superior to women. Also, social norms and values were biased in favor of men. This strong bias in favor of sons in society meant that daughters were discriminated against from birth and did not have equal opportunities to achieve all aspects of development.Bhattarai, Arjun Kumar. “How rural women experience disempowered in Nepal : an empirical study on women experience as the main obstacles to their disempowerment in their everyday lives”. Universitetet i Nordland, 2014. Daughters were deprived of many privileges, including rights, education, healthcare, parental property rights, social status, last rites of dead p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In War 1945–1999
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, ''SRY'' gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. An adult woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. These characteristics facilitate childbirth and breastfeeding. Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Throughout human history, traditional ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Nepal (1951–2008)
Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multiracial, multicultural, multi-religious, and multilingual country. The most spoken language is Nepali followed by several other ethnic languages. The modern day Kingdom of Nepal was established in 1768 and started a campaign of unifying what would form the modern territories of Nepal. Some former territories had been lost due to the Anglo-Nepalese War and the Sino-Nepalese War. In the Sino-Nepalese war,the conflict ended with both victories and losses with the kingdom ultimately accepting tributary status with the Qing dynasty of China from 1792 to 1865. The Anglo-Nepalese War ended in British victory and resulted in the ceding some Nepalese territory in the Treaty of Sugauli. In a historical vote for the election of the constituent assembly, the Nepalese parliament voted to abolish the monarchy in June 2006. Nepal became a federal republic on 28 May 2008 and was formally renamed the 'Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal' ending the 200-year-ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marxist Feminism
Marxist feminism is a philosophical variant of feminism that incorporates and extends Marxism, Marxist theory. Marxist feminism analyzes the ways in which women are exploited through capitalism and the individual ownership of private property. According to Marxist feminists, women's liberation can only be achieved by dismantling the capitalist systems in which they contend much of women's labor is uncompensated. Marxist feminists extend traditional Marxist analysis by applying it to unpaid domestic labor and sex relations. Because of its foundation in historical materialism, Marxist feminism is similar to socialist feminism and, to a greater degree, materialist feminism. The latter two place greater emphasis on what they consider the "reductionist limitations" of Marxist theory but, as Martha E. Gimenez notes in her exploration of the differences between Marxist and materialist feminism, "clear lines of theoretical demarcation between and within these two umbrella terms are somew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maoism In Nepal
Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China. A difference between Maoism and traditional Marxism–Leninism is that a united front of progressive forces in class society would lead the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than communist revolutionaries alone. This theory, in which revolutionary praxis is primary and ideological orthodoxy is secondary, represents urban Marxism–Leninism adapted to pre-industrial China. Later theoreticians expanded on the idea that Mao had adapted Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions, arguing that he had in fact updated it fundamentally and that Maoism could be applied universally throughout the world. This ideology is often referred to as Marxism–Leninism–Maoism to distinguish it from the original ideas of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In War In South Asia
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, ''SRY'' gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. An adult woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. These characteristics facilitate childbirth and breastfeeding. Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Throughout human history, traditional ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pir (song)
Pir () is a Nepali song composed by Prakash Saput. Sung by Prakash Saput and Samjhana Bhandari, featuring Saput and Surakshya Panta in the music video. Released on March 12, 2022, it tells the story of former Maoist guerrillas disappointed by the unmet promises of the revolution. Background and composition ''Pir'' was composed by Prakash Saput. Saput himself sang and acted the male role, while Samjhana Bhandari sang the female role. The song contains a distinct folk rhythm. Plot More than a decade after the end of the war, two former guerillas are raising their daughter in a large city. The protagonist, a struggling butcher who keeps a shelf full of Marxist-Leninist literature in the family's one-room slum dwelling, resists his wife's pleas to become a guest worker abroad. Hoping to provide her daughter with a better life, the latter decides to go abroad herself, leaving her husband to raise their child. Three months later, the protagonist has not heard from his wife, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharma Ratna Yami
Dharma Ratna Tuladhar, popularly known as Dharma Ratna Yami () was a Nepalese government deputy minister, activist and Newa language writer While serving eighteen years jail term, he changed his surname from Tuladhar to ''Yami'' (meaning an inhabitant of Kathmandu in Nepal Bhasa) and identified himself as Newa. He in the jail to unite and organized communities against the Rana rulers. Early life Yami was born to father Bhawani Ratna, son of rich business merchant Late Ratna Das Tuladhar and Mother Devi Maya Tuladhar at Asan Kamalachhi (), Kathmandu. His was an affluent merchant family which was made penniless after the Rana regime confiscated their property. Yami was schooled at home. In 1930, he traveled to Lhasa and worked in the business house of Dharma Man Tuladhar. In Tibet, he came in contact with Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan; and under his influence and inspiration, he studied books on various subjects and began writing himself. B. R. Ambedkar was a good friend of la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
