Activists affiliated to various women rights organization expressed concerns about Thapa’s promotion stating that the ‘male dominated state’ might deny rightful promotion to Thapa, while speaking at a press meet organized at the Reporters Club Nepal on Wednesday.
Concerns from these organizations come a month before the incumbent Inspector General of Police will retire. If not promoted to the post of AIGP, DIGP Thapa, who presently is the most senior in existing DIGs, will not be eligible to contend for the post of IGP.
Stating that there are no reasons to avert her from becoming the first female IGP of police, other than gender biasness, Sharada Pokhrel – President of Women Security Activist Group- warned that the state will have to face protests if Thapa is denied her right for being a female.
“We will move the court, international court and even will take to streets, if a women is denied a responsible position at the policy making level,” Pokhrel added.
Similarly, another speaker at the program, Durga Sob – President of Sankalp- warned to launch nationwide protest programs that will affect the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections.

Yashoda Timilsina, Vice President of Federation of Nepalese Journalists, argued that women’s participation at the decision making level has remained low despite the state’s commitment to secure 33 percent reservations. She stressed on the need to promote women’s participation in key decision making level and said that Thapa’s promotion will be landmark achievement for gender equality in Nepal.

The victim claimed that they had raped her multiple times. While the victim is undergoing treatment at the Lumbini Hospital, the culprits are still at large.

KATHMANDU: Popular social media fueled anti-VAW movement- #OccupyBaluwatar and #TIARape – has been raging in Nepal’s capital for some months now. But living conditions of Nepali women inside the country and outside the country remains “from pillar to post”.

A report from Sri Lankan Mirror has reported that as much as 11 Nepali dancers, who were in the island nation on a tourist visa, were arrested by local police from a local dance bar on March 18.

Though identification of these dancers has been withheld, the report claimed that the Nepali girls were detained from a dance club – Mujra Club -in Bambalapitiya, Colombo 4.

The report further claimed that no women police personals were used in conducting the raid and in detaining the Nepali dancers who were there on a tourist visa.

A follow up report by the same daily on March 19 claimed that these girls were handed over the Department of Immigration for deporting them back to Nepal.

The reported claimed that the girls were being deported as they were found to be working which their tourist visa restricts from.

Prior to this also, owner of the same dance bar had reported that a Nepali girl had ran away with his customer leaving her passport behind.

Whereabouts of the girl still remain unknown. The case has once questioned to the security of Nepali women working in and outside the nation and the procedures that the government is taking to ensure that Nepali females are not trafficked into other nations.

While the Occupy Baluwatar continues unabated, and government continues to turn its back on the demands, Nepali women continue to suffer- in and outside the country.

SYDNEY: Papua New Guinea police have charged two people with the grisly killing of a woman who was tortured and burned alive in front of hundreds of people, including young children, after being accused of witchcraft.

Janet Ware and Andrew Watea were charged with murder over the slaying of Kepari Leniata, a 20-year-old mother who was stripped, tortured with a hot iron rod, doused in gasoline and set alight on a pile of car tires and trash by a mob earlier this month.

Leniata had been accused of sorcery by relatives of a 6-year-old boy who had died in a hospital. Ware and Watea are believed to be the boy’s mother and uncle, police said in a statement.

The two charged Monday were among more than 40 people who were detained last week in connection with Leniata’s slaying. The others were eventually released due to lack of evidence, but police said more arrests are expected.

In rural Papua New Guinea, witchcraft is often blamed for unexplained misfortunes, but the brutal killing was met with outrage across the South Pacific island nation, drawing condemnation from the prime minister, police and diplomats.

Police said the hundreds of onlookers, many of whom were children and teenagers, were powerless to stop the mob who participated in Leniata’s killing in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen. Police officers were also among the spectators, but were outnumbered and couldn’t save the woman, national police spokesman Dominic Kakas said. An internal investigation is under way into the police’s actions at the scene.

Murder is punishable by death in Papua New Guinea, although no one has been hanged since the country became independent in 1975.

The campaign is launched in different countries of the world today to express solidarity for ending VAW. The rally, demanding guarantee of ending VAW, started from Baluwatar and converged into a corner meeting after reaching Shantibatika after going through different places of the capital.

Participants in the rally organised by various women rights organizations including Sancharika Samuha, demanded that laws to end VAW, be brought.

During the program, artistes staged a drama urging one and all not to portray and use women just a commodity, but are human beings.

The activists demanded that a strict law be brought for ending VAW and stern action to those involved in VAW.

SINDHUPALCHOWK: While the Home administration has been promising every measures to curb violence against women, a women recently filed case against her father in law for repeatedly raping her in house.

The 18 year old wife of a driver, who is abroad for some time now, filed case against her father in law Dil Bahadur accusing the latter of repeatedly raping while she was 8 months pregnant and even when she was nursing her 2 months son.

The women, a resident of Siruwari-5, has claimed that she had come to file case against her father in law after her own husband did not take any measures to stop the father from raping her.

The victim had reached the district police station with her four months baby milk feeding baby. In her complaint the victim has said that she was raped recently while she was taking cover from the rain.

Not only that, while rolling out tears the victim said that her father in law rapes her even when she is nursing the baby or feeding him milk or doing any household chores, the Nepali newspaper Rajdhani Dainik reported on Sunday.

” My father in law began to rape where he saw me. Inside the house, in the farms, or in the cowshed. He has been continuously hunting me down. I could not sustain it any more and had to come here for help,” the victim said while waiting outside the police station.

While informing that her husband loves her very much, she said that her love marriage was perfect until he went abroad for employment and her father in law began hunting her.

Police arrested local Bobby Rana and Bikash Thapa in connection with the rape case, said Chaturbhuj Ojha, Police Inspector at the District Police Office, Kanchanpur .

The Area Police Office, Dodhara, arrested the two youths as per the petition filed by the victim girl’s father at the police, said Inspector Ojha.

The girl was gang- raped while attending the marriage ceremony two days ago. Ojha said another girl was reported to have helped the youths in the rape .

MUGU: Just as Nepal is currently busy observing the 16-day campaign against Violence against Women (VAW) by organizing a variety of programmes, a teenager girl in Mugu was raped by a man whom she allegedly refused to marry.

Ram Singh Bohara,20, of Ruga VDC-3 raped the 17-year-old girl of Rowa VDC-6 on Tuesday midnight by taking her to a nearby field.

The girl was raped after she refused his proposal of marriage, according to local resident Rup Bahadur Budha.

Following a complaint by the victim, police have arrested Bohara from his home and is under custody pending further investigation and legal action.
The girl was a Grade 8 student at the local school. RSS

UDAYPUR: The cases of domestic violence against elderly women are reportedly on the rise in Udaypur district. Women mainly of old age here are getting neglected by their families with losing possession of their property.

Gayatri Bastola, 78, of Tiryuga Municipality is an example of the victims of domestic violence against women. According to Gayatri, she was kicked out from her house by her own eldest son after she transferred the ownership of all property to him.

Now, getting dejections from her family, Gatatri is forced to eke out a living by collecting and selling firewood. Gayatri burst into tear as she recalls her son’s treatment to her that she never imagined before that.

Gayatri every day goes to the nearby Chure jungle, collects firewood, sells it to the local market and manages two square meals. No festivals including the Dashain and Tihar bring cheers to Gayatri since she has been expelled by her family.

Similarly, woes of one Mithumaya BK, 65, of Bokse Hatdanda are not different from the sufferings Gaytari living with. Mithumaya is now living a beggarly life after being neglected by her husband Dhana Bahadur.

Property that Mithumaya had got from her maternal home is in the possession of her husband. Women in the district are becoming the victims of domestic violence against them due to a lack of their access to property.

According to human rights defender Maheshwori Rai, the cases of violence against women is increasing day by day in the district as women do not have their possession on ancestral property and have even lost their ownership due to various reasons.

She stressed the need of making women financially secured with guaranteeing their rights to ancestral property to end violence against them. RSS