How to reduce disaster risks
Scott Rosefield2021-07-14T12:19:04-07:00
Nepal’s disaster management models should be proactive, but it is still reactive.
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07, 2021
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07, 2021
2021 Trafficking In Persons Report
Scott Rosefield2021-07-06T13:24:27-07:00
The Government of Nepal does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so. Despite the documented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the government’s anti-trafficking capacity, the government demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous reporting period; therefore Nepal remained on Tier 2.
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05, 2021
Decision to close groceries triggers panic buying
Scott Rosefield2021-05-27T08:54:53-07:00
Experts fear virus surge, call decision short-sighted.
20
05, 2021
Pandemic pushing more families into poverty as unemployment soars
Scott Rosefield2021-05-20T11:02:26-07:00
People have been deprived of their basic right to health, education, and livelihood, rights activists say.
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05, 2021
Behind Nepal’s alarming COVID-19 surge
Scott Rosefield2021-05-18T08:45:05-07:00
While India's second wave has alarmed the world, the situation is equally dire across the border in Nepal, which has now surpassed India's per capita death rate.
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05, 2021
Nepal: Act to Avert Looming Covid-19 Disaster
Scott Rosefield2021-05-11T11:55:38-07:00
Desperate Need for Supplies, Oxygen as Cases Surge
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05, 2021
Nepal facing ‘human catastrophe’ similar to India’s amid Covid surge
Scott Rosefield2021-05-07T10:33:23-07:00
Country appeals for international help, with vaccines in short supply and a reported 47% positivity rate.
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04, 2021
COVID-19 infections surge in Nepal, fueled by mutant strains from India
Scott Rosefield2021-04-28T13:56:54-07:00
Authorities in Nepal were grappling to contain the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases with experts fearing that thousands of people in the Himalayan state have caught the more infectious mutant strains emerging out of India.
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04, 2021
Prohibitory orders in Kathmandu Valley for a week starting Thursday morning
Scott Rosefield2021-04-26T13:32:46-07:00
The decision comes amid rising number of cases in the Valley, which reported more than half of the total new infections across the country.
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04, 2021
Vaccination rate dismal even as cases are surging with only 100,000 taking Chinese shots
Scott Rosefield2021-04-22T11:02:22-07:00
With the country reporting 13 new deaths and the daily count of 496, concerns have grown over a repeat of last year’s cycle if authorities fail to ramp up measures to contain the spread.