Interdisciplinary Analysts News Today

Hours before the PM took off from Kathmandu, President Ram Chandra Poudel gave his assent to a controversial amendment to Nepal's citizenship law that grants almost instant citizenship — along with guaranteed political rights — to women foreigners married to Nepalis.

"...findings...have implications for the feasibility of community-based social-norms-change and movement-building efforts to realize sustained impacts under chronic conditions of gender inequality and the COVID-19 pandemic." Girl child, early, and forced marriage (CEFM) persists in South Asia, with long-term effects on well-being.