VAWs in lockdown: More than 104 cases in two weeks

KATHMANDU: With COVID-19’s grip over 210 countries and around 90 countries in lockdown, more than 4 billion people are now at home. Hailed as the alternative to ward off the deadly spread of the pandemic, as side effects, it has increased in the cases of violence against women.

While the country is still in lockdown, the National Women Commission’s helpline 1145 rang with a complaint since the beginning of lockdown. A woman from Nuwakot complained that she is tortured by her in-laws.