Nepal: No Country for Women
Nepal is a country by men, for men. But it's time to recognize why that is so and to move forward.
Birth is a beginning…not an end, unlike how the Caste System in Nepal treats it.
Nepal is a country by men, for men. But it's time to recognize why that is so and to move forward.
Social structure propped up, supported and perpetuated by Nepal's very highly patriarchal caste system has given rise to a bureaucractic and political--and other--systems that's characterized by deplorable structural inequality, which many of those responsible aren't able to understand or, if they do, will not acknowledge.
But there is a solution!
What does privilege in Nepal look like? Here's an exercise to visually and dramatically show that.
Poverty is an injustice. One of the surest ways of fighting that injustice is by empowering our girls and women.
If only a human being were reducible to a stereotype...if only a human being could be completely defined by the mere social construct of social status...if only.
If you don't or cannot display compassion and humanity to those around you at this time of desperate need for just that, then you cannot expect compassion and humanity from others living in far off lands!