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Vulnerable Women I went through your cover story on violence against women
"VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (SPOTLIGHT December 3)." The story reveals the details
of the traumatic situation the Nepalese women are going through. After years of submission
to the male chauvinism, women of Nepal had started to get some liberty with the dawn of
democracy. However, the good trend didn’t last long and soon after the Maoist
violence started to grip the country, women became victims again. Obviously the
traditional social structure has made them very vulnerable to any adverse conditions in
the society. And because of this reason, women are largely affected by conflict despite
the fact that the number of males who have died exceeds the number of females in the last
nine years of insurgency. Shyam K. C. Always Suffering In a traditional Nepali society, women were suppressed by their
own family members "VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (SPOTLIGHT December 3)". Now, they
are oppressed by the two warring parties of the internal conflict. Not that the violence
from family members has totally stopped, but the intimidation from the armed forces of
conflict is so bad that it has overshadowed the violence within the family. The protest by
the women in Dailekh against Maoist atrocities shows the desperation created by the
conflict. Rita Kharel Most Affected You have rightly pointed out in your cover story that women have
suffered the most from the conflict in the country "VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (SPOTLIGHT
December 3)." Although, men are more involved directly in the war, women face a
larger psychological trauma because of the conflict. The deaths or injuries of men trouble
their wives and mothers more than anybody else. Moreover, women are weak-hearted by nature
and cannot easily tolerate adverse conditions. They are not habituated to accepting
challenges of society that were traditionally handled by men. The examples of women
tilling their field and attending death rites show that they are forced to indulge in
activities that used to be considered as belonging exclusively to the male turf. Dinesh Lama Bring Rehabilitation
Programs The situation of women affected by conflict is very gloomy as you
have written in your cover story "VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (SPOTLIGHT December
3)." Many women have not just lost their sons and husbands in the ocean of the
conflict, but have also lost the breadwinner of the family. So, in fact, but ironically,
they do not even have the time for the psychological trauma. As soon as the news of death
of their beloved ones reach them, they are burdened with the responsibility of the family,
which they had never been trained for in the past. Many children also suffer from this
tragedy. To help such women the government and the non-governmental organizations working
for the welfare of women and children should bring more rehabilitation programs such as
various skill-oriented trainings, easy loan schemes for the women to conduct their own
businesses and subsidies in children's education. Prerana Khanal Empower Women The cover story on violence against women was very informative
"VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (SPOTLIGHT December 3)." It presented the grim situation
Nepalese women are going through. Many of such adverse situations would not have struck
the women, had the women been equally empowered as the men in the past. So, I think with
this difficulty that many women in Nepal are facing, most of the parents are convinced
that daughters should be educated and trained equally well in external affairs as their
sons, so that their excessive dependency on their husbands will not boomerang at some
point in the future. Kripa Shrestha Give Justice to
Teachers It is very sad to know that the teachers, who have worked for
years to produce good citizens for the country, are now forced to stay for a hunger strike
for the guarantee of their jobs "TEACHERS ON HUNGER STRIKE: Classes Denied (SPOTLIGHT
December 5)". The fact they are ready to lose their lives for the sake of the job
reveals how desperate they are. Keeping the legal hassles aside, it is very unjust to
force the teachers to such a situation, talking on humanitarian grounds alone. The top
brass of the concerned agencies, many of whom certainly are students of one or the other
of the agitating teachers, should understand the problems of the teachers and not entangle
themselves in the name of legal hassles to solve the problem of the teachers. Laws and
regulations should be made and amended according to the need of the time. If some people
are not getting justice because of the laws and regulations, what is the use of such laws
at all? Sabin Shrestha |
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