Dayaram Thakur is one of the Most Understanding Husband Campaign finalists. He believes that women’s empowerment is key to the whole family’s prosperity. Photo credit: Pawan Neupane, Equal Access Nepal.
2 June 2011
“My husband raped me almost every day,” describes a woman from Nepal’s Makwanpur district, one the the country’s regions most affected by HIV and AIDS. “He had the misconception that it was his right to have sex with his wife whenever he wanted to.”
“Unity of Women for Justice, Equality, and Rights!”
Rural Women’s Network Nepal (RUWON) began in 2007, is an autonomous non-governmental social organization actively initiated by well-known personalities for decades in the fields of women’s, youth's and children's rights and social justice in Nepal.
About 1400 people, youth, men and women, took to the streets in Kathmandu and joined the Rural Women’s Network Nepal (RUWON Nepal) at a rally promoting equal access to education for all children, girls and boys.
To celebrate the 100th International Women’s Day, 400 supporters joined a rally organized by the Rural Women's Network (RUWON Nepal) in Kathmandu, demanding an end to gender-discrimination and access to education and job training for all women and girls living in rural areas.
