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This briefing note, published by the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and Forest Peoples Programme, is intended to develop discussion and thought about the complexity of the challenges of violence against indigenous women and girls. Work being done by...
Fifteen organisations working with indigenous women, including Forest Peoples Programme, have joined forces to emphasise the injustice and multiple forms of discrimination suffered by indigenous women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee). States are required to submit reports to the Committee every four...
Gender discrimination and son preference are key demographic features of South Asia and are well documented for India. However, gender bias and sex preference in Nepal have received little attention.
1996 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey data on ever-married women aged 15–49 who did not desire any more children were used to investigate levels of gender bias and sex...
The centrality of motherhood in the lives of Hindu women is well known, but it takes on new force with the intensive study of a particular group of contemporary Nepali women. In this case, the women are members of the Brahman and Chhetri castes believed to be representative of similar women in small villages in the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding hills. For these women childbearing is the...
One of the fundamental goals of anthropological research in Nepal must be to generate data, explanations and recommendations which can be used by policy makers to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants without causing either long or short term degradation of the environment. In particular the socio-economic systems of existing hill and mountain populations must be stabilised in their...
Nepal, as a patrilineal society, is generally characterised by the domination of women by men. As such, it is widely believed that productive activities are mainly carried out by men. Women are generally seen as being confined to household activities only, such as looking after the house, child rearing, food processing and collecting firewood. Women are not thought to be directed by economic...
It is commonly known that there is wide publicity and propaganda for the enlargement of bottle-feeding in most of the developing countries of the world. Unlike in developing countries, life in the developed countries is more complex, the standard of living is high, and the feeling of solidarity is less prevalent. The developed countries have achieved the kind of modernisation where human life...
The findings presented here are the result of a detailed analysis of the couple adopting various forms of contraceptive devices. All the information collected during the field research activity of the Family Health Project, IOM under UNFPA fund is supplemented by additional information on family types, contraception history, etc. An attempt has been made in analysing the determinants of...
The paucity of information on factors affecting age at menopause contrasts with the abundance of information on factors influencing age at menarche. Indeed the similar ages at menopause among various Western populations surveyed to date is noteworthy in reflecting an apparent lack of cultural, biological and environmental differences. The results of a study at middle altitude (2,300m) in the...
High altitude ecozones are among the most extreme environments to which human populations have adapted. Of the several physiological stresses encountered at high altitude, the pervasive influence of hypoxia (the low atmosphere partial pressure of oxygen) has engendered widespread interest. Traditional cultural mechanisms do not ameliorate the low partial pressure of oxygen found at high...
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