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Accepted Paper:

Women in conflict. Nepal: rhetoric and reality  
Hari Devkota (Unification Nepal )

Paper short abstract:

Nepal has ruined a decade long conflict and more than 12,407 people have been killed. Besides human casualty the conflict has shown that increasing number of people has been displaced(NRC200000. The conflict has adversely affected to women and children.

Paper long abstract:

During the conflict many women and girls were subjected to abduction, displacement, trafficking, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence. Some were killed. Women were deprived of education and health-care. Their reproductive rights were not protected. Many girls were forced by their families to marry at increasingly younger ages out of fear they would otherwise soon be raped, thus ruining their marriage prospects later. Men joined the fighting, fled or migrated to seek alternative employment to support their families. Thousands of young single women and widows were left with sole responsibility for families. Women combatants, activists, researchers, journalists, became victims of Human Rights' abuses by both State forces and Maoists.Women and children were highly affected during the conflict period and now they are most vulnerable and least priorities through government.The major problem of women at now is employment, survival. They called as underprivileged

Panel SE14
Women and children in conflict areas and the issue of human rights (IUAES Commission on Human Rights)
  Session 1 Tuesday 6 August, 2013, -