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Nepal’s Republic in Crisis: After the Streets Erupted

15 October 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar

Seventeen years after the palace’s fall, Nepal’s fragile republic faces another reckoning. The September uprising revealed a generation’s anger and the unfulfilled promises of democracy. “Down with corruption!” “No more lies!” “We want jobs, (…)
Nepal’s Protests Are the Result of a Blocked Revolution

28 September 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar

When Nepal became a republic in 2008, it aroused hopes for a fundamental transformation of Nepali society. The inability of Nepal’s left parties to deliver on those hopes created a mood of discontent among young people that exploded over the last (…)
Nepal joins regional wave of revolt as popular anger at repression and inequality spreads across South Asia

12 September 2025 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas

Since 2022, a wave of movements that originated in Sri Lanka has spread across South Asia. In Bangladesh, the anti-quota movement sparked widespread protests in 2024, prompting the Sheikh Hasina government to respond with severe repression. In (…)
Nepal: Reformism Fails Once Again!

10 September 2025 - by Imran Kamyana, Rahul J.P.

Nepal has been gripped by explosive events over the past two days. The brave and courageous protests of tens of thousands of young people have shaken the entire state structure. Since this movement is being led by very young activists, it is (…)
The World Social Forum: The counterweight to the World Economic Forum

25 February 2024 - by Isabel Ortiz

KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 23 2024 (IPS) - This week the 2024 annual meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Nepal. There were fifty thousand participants from over 90 countries, exchanging strategies to address the multiple global crises, (…)
The CADTM holds seven successful workshops at the World Social Forum in Kathmandu (Nepal)

21 February 2024 - by CADTM International, Maxime Perriot

After two days marked by the opening march of the World Social Forum in Kathmandu and two very successful workshops with 100 and 50 participants respectively, the CADTM International delegation organised or co-organised five new workshops on 17 (…)
In Nepal, CADTM delegates took part in the opening march of the World Social Forum and successfully completed their initial workshops

21 February 2024 - by CADTM International, Maxime Perriot

The World Social Forum, which took place this year in Kathmandu (Nepal), began on Thursday 15 February 2024. The CADTM International network was represented by delegates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and the (…)
Launching a Major International Front Against the Extreme Right

21 February 2024 - by Eric Toussaint, Sergio Ferrari

At the end of another edition of the World Social Forum (WSF) held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from February 15 to 19, it’s time to take stock. “It was a very positive event for the region. But we need to move forward and promote concrete initiatives in (…)
ADB violates its own safeguard policies in Nepal Hydropower Project

30 January 2024 - by Sushovan Dhar

The 140 MW Tanahu Seti Hydroelectric Project (THP) is located in the Tanahu District of Nepal’s Western Development Region. It is a storage type hydropower project with a capacity of 140 MW. As part of the project, a dam with a height of 140 (…)
Nepal needs Total Debt Cancellation to face the Covid-19 Crisis

23 April 2020 - by Praman Adhikari

The devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic is a serious threat which has brought our civilisation and economies at the brink of collapse. The current crisis in every sector of our lives has revealed how weak our system is when it comes to (…)
Kathmandu Declaration of South Asia Peasants’ Convergence

14 March 2017 - by Collective

We, the representatives of South Asian peasant organizations, agricultural labourer unions, plantation workers unions, young farmers, women, landless and Dalits, Adivasis, small and marginal farmers, pastoralist and herders and other small food (…)
International Monetary Fund Refuses Nepal Debt Relief

26 June 2015 - by Jubilee USA

Washington DC - International Monetary Fund (IMF) spokesperson Gerry Rice announced Nepal will not receive debt relief from a special IMF trust fund that helps poor countries when they face natural disasters. The IMF’s Catastrophe Containment and (…)
Total and Unconditional Debt Cancellation for Nepal!

22 May 2015 - by Jubilee South, APMDD - Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development

The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), its member organizations, its colleagues in the Jubilee South network, and its partners in the international community stand together with the people of Nepal as they struggle to (…)
Meeting in Nepal, People’s SAARC challenges South Asian regional elite’s agenda

15 December 2014 - by Farooq Tariq

The 18th South Asian Associations for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit took place at Kathmandu, Nepal on November 25 and 26. The heads of the eight states of South Asia took part in the summit. Kathmandu was a showcase of what has happened (…)
Statement from Civil Society Organizations of Nepal

Say NO to ‘climate loan’

Adverse impacts of global warming and subsequent climate change are already been apparent with an increase in frequency and intensity of climate induced extreme events. People’s lives and livelihoods, especially of poor and marginalized social (…)
SAAPE calls for an immediate solution to the political crisis in Nepal

21 May 2009 - by SAAPE

The thematic group on Just and Democratic Governance of South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) observes with great anxiety the recent political crisis in Nepal brought about by the resignation of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (…)