WHR has held a Staff and Board Residential Meeting and Retreat from 18th to 19th of January 2021 at The Lakeside Retreat Resort, Pokhara. The meeting dwelled on the achievements of WHR so far and affiliated single women groups across the country and identified the existing challenges, loopholes and opportunities. The two-day event successfully concluded by forging a definitive future plan in terms …
WHR founder Thapa receives International Human Rights Award-2020
Lily Thapa, Founder of Women for Human Rights, single women group (WHR), has been conferred with the prestigious International Human Rights Award-2020. The award is an international facilitation to the humanitarian engagement of WHR in various sectors, especially pertaining to safeguarding the rights of single women in the country and their empowerment. The latest comes the relief efforts undertaken by WHR in the …
Broken Bangles, shattered dreams
I try to find the missing pieces of what is left of me, lost, isolated, mortified in this prison of grief … No words, person or system to provide me any form of relief … Blamed for something that was destiny’s game I am convicted of bringing agony and shame Shame to those who don’t even know what it feels …
To be a widow …is it a curse?
Her family under the brutal commands of the patriarchal society inflicted pain upon her. The degree of pain so harsh that she was ripped off of all the happiness, love, compassion and drained of all the colours that decorated her life. The ‘Red’ that once symbolized her new beginning is being completely vacuumed from every bit of her life marking …
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