Parents and child care experts say that the Covid-19 crisis has only exacerbated already existing challenges for children with development challenges--and there are no easy solutions in sight.

For the past five months, sanitary napkins have not reached many remote villages, forcing girls to go back to using unhygienic methods.

With families struggling financially, girls cannot focus on their studies as they have to help out in household chores and do not always have access to technology for remote learning.

Fightback, since its inception in 2013, has not only been teaching martial art techniques to students but also vocal and mental skills that would help them take power away from perpetrators.

With restrictions on movement, families cannot travel to extend support, and new mothers fear infection if they go for check-ups.

Actor Rajesh Hamal is returning to the small screen to host the 12-episode series.

Plans of thousands of students to study abroad have been either postponed or shattered due to Covid-19 related travel restrictions, and suspension of visa services.

Blanket ban on women from migrating overseas for employment has only encouraged labour trafficking and exploitation, labour migration experts and rights groups say.

Many universities, including Harvard, have decided to go online for the next academic year, meaning foreign students will not be legally allowed to remain in the United States.

The lockdown has taken away livelihoods and forced queer individuals back in with prejudiced families, leading to social isolation and failing mental health.

To lessen people’s stress and anxiety, a couple of independent groups in Surkhet have been providing free, socially-distanced entertainment sessions for people in quarantine.

Maan Kumari and her family were cruelly treated when they reached their hometown and at the quarantine centre they were accused of bringing the coronavirus.

Two recent incidents resulting in the killings of seven Dalit individuals have once again brought to light the uncomfortable fact that caste-based discrimination is alive and well.

As menstrual stigmas have largely been put in place and supported by men, their participation in uprooting these taboos is critical, gender rights activists say.

The lockdown has disrupted access to contraception, especially in rural areas, where there are still taboos against contraceptive use, and premarital sex.