Economic necessity often pushes women into sex work. Advocates are debating the best response: decriminalization or finding ...

Sold,” a 2006 novel about a teenage Nepali girl sold into sexual slavery, will be removed from library shelves in the ...

I was scared my parents wouldn’t let me study or write poems. That fear is what led me to adopt the pen name Jyoti Jungle. I ...

As Women’s History Month draws to a close, I’d like to share four exceptional young adult nonfiction books of some very fascinating women--most whose stories I’d wager you’ve never heard ...

In 2008, Nepal emerged from the shadows of a feudal past to embrace a federal democratic republic—a transformation forged ...

Over the last thirty-five years or so, Nepal's leading political actors have been playing like children slinging ...

From the streets of Harlem to Vietnam to Hollywood, these stories correct the record and spotlight lesser-known heroes for ...

Leaving behind legacies of resilience, determination and groundbreaking achievements, often in the face of societal barriers, ...

Ironically, the very demonstration of people’s attachment to their local ecology was used by centralised decision-makers to ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

Holt Breen stresses that the highest honor in Native American culture is to be a warrior. United by a tradition of service, ...

Chronicling a decade of cult downtown NYC label MadeMe, the book features brand collaborators Paloma Elsesser and Lourdes ...