Gender justice and equality: Recognising 4 key challenges faced by Nepal’s adolescents

Establishing gender justice and equality is one of the Sustainable Development Goals . Nepal is also well committed to achieving this goal. Nepal’s constitution clearly mentions equality between men and women. Nonetheless, there is still a number of barriers to truly realising the rights of equality by all. Basically, discriminations, harmful social norms and poor security systems are important challenges among others. So, addressing such barriers is very much important to ensure equality and gender justice.

A few days ago, this author got an opportunity to participate in an event involving adolescent girls in Kanchanpur, Kapilvastu and Rupendehi districts. There, we discussed the key problems faced by these adolescent girls. In all three districts, the issues were more or less similar. Among a lot of issues shared by these adolescent girls, four major issues are discussed here as part of backup evidence of ground-level barriers. Those are frequently pointed by themselves.