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Issues of early marriage and young pregnancies to improve reproductive and sexual health among young people.
Early marriage can have devastating impact on girls’ lives. It can adversely affect their physiological and psychological health leading to gender-based violence, school dropout, makes them prone to sexually transmitted diseases and also to pregnancy-related complications.
Beyond the physical trauma, child brides suffer from post-traumatic stress, experiencing feelings of helplessness and depression.
Although the legal age of marriage is 20 for both male and female, it is hardly implemented in Nepal
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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Analyzing this inspiring quote, Youth for me is a source for energy and innovative ideas. After a long procedure on coalition between change makers, YUWA and YALC organized a YUWA – Coalition Building: “A step towards healthy tomorrow”. …
Nepal covers only 0.03% of area of whole world which is regarded as small portion but within that 0.03% we can find wide diversity in Culture, Natural Resources and Wildlife. This is the reason why Nepal is popular worldwide. There are about 26.3 million people with various cultures and religion with their own lifestyle. As we have limited space for the settlement now the people have started deforestation to make them settle by destroying what we are rich in. Those which are involved in such activities never ever thought …
Premature ejaculation is one of the biggest challenge youth face when they are believed to be sexual active. Premature ejaculation has also been one of the major reason for decreasing the level of self esteem among the youth due to which lack confident occur and create many mental stress. Premature ejaculation is simply understood as a stage where male occur orgasm before they want or desire. It is said that the problem of premature ejaculation is not physical but the mental. But I don’t agree either on physical nor …
Gender equity and spousal support post divorce. Is it justified???
Given the fact that we come from a patriarchal male-dominated country, the social transformation concerning gender equity will take time to find its course. Women here are still considered inferior and they lack their social status and prestige. It is a husband who usually makes money from job to support the family whereas most of their better halves serve as housewives. Women are not equally placed for work and position. Under such circumstances it’s not uncommon for women to …
When we have a pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck, we call we are having headache. The most common types of headache are the “primary headache disorders”, such as tension-type headache and migraine. Recently I also had a headache and I swear it was severe and of a pulsating character affecting my occipital.
When we have headaches we usually take them to be the outcomes of our busy schedule; often when we are assigned tasks that annoy or disinterest us. But in my case none …
This is the experience shared by a 22-year-old married woman regarding the marital sexual violence she is grappling with Living at Lalitpur,Nepal
I always tried to convince him that I was not interested in having sex. But he would not be convinced and used to force me into having sex unmindful of my mood. What could I do to resist him in such situation, except give up and tolerate?”He thinks that it is the right of the husband to demand sex at any time he wishes from …
With a drastic evolution of various technologies, mysteries of past is a clear cut vision now, it’s even more. With this pace of advancements, earth has become a small globe as networking is gaining its speed. There must be no humans on earth not knowing about television, mobile, telephone or else are considered as humans of dark ages. Letters, mails are no more late comers, hands are seen busy with mobile phone, laptop, news are updated via internet, world is viewed through a box, even slimmer now, which we …
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