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Feminism is central to the social, cultural and political movement for equality around the globe but how important is the role of feminist knowledge generation and retention to sustain the feminist movement? Is feminist resource center an answer? We explore. Feminist movement and Nepal In Nepal, from Yogmaya Neupane who ignited the rage against discrimination at the civic level in 1917, to the downfall of over a century long oligarchy Rana regime – made possible through women’s participation, feminist movement has played a significant role in shaping Nepal’s history. The Department of Women Development was established in 2000 under the…

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The first South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course was held in 1983 and was organized by Kamla Bhasin who then worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Sangat was later formed as a regional network at an FAOorganized South Asian workshop of gender trainers held in Bangladesh in 1998. Sangat has been organizing South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Courses since 2003. This report presents the learning and procedure of the the 22nd South Asian Feminist Capacity building course on gender, sustainable livelihoods, human rights and peace. Through these feminist training the networks strive to build…

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Ensuring justice for rape victims and survivors in Bangladesh has mostly been understood and pursued in punitive terms. While ensuring punishment of the perpetrator is important, redress for the rape survivor is seldom discussed. The objective of this report is to restore the balance in the discourse on justice for rape, so the urgent necessity of granting monetary remedies to the rape survivor becomes clear. To this end, the report highlights the inadequacy of the existing provisions on compensation for rape, and offers a reform proposal, drawing on examples from other laws relating to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in…