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Recent flood events in the HIndu Kush-Himalaya region
Recent studies focus attention on the radically changed flood patterns, including heavy rainfall that leads to landslides and soil erosion. For example, in Nepal…
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Human trafficking in Nepal – Patterns
Maiti Nepal rescues an estimated 2,000 thousand girls each year, including children and women intercepted at borders and victims liberated from brothels and from…
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Gender division of labour in agriculture and household activities – Nepal and India
In Nepal, the gender division of labour is highly skewed, especially when agricultural, pastoral and wage labour is combined with household, community and casual…
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Climate change vulnerability
Vulnerability of human populations to extreme climate related events and changes in major climate parameters over the next 30 years.
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Gender (im)balance in the delegation of parties (COP) on climate change
Critical importance is the under-representation of women in policy and decision-making institutions, in dialogue on adaptation to climate change, in the governance of natural…
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Labour migration from Nepal
As numerous studies have demonstrated, women bear the disproportionate burden of the costs of disasters, if their rights are not ensured and if gender,…
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Trafficking of women and girls in Nepal
Some estimates from Maiti Nepal suggest that trafficking from Nepal may have increased from an estimated 3-5,000 per year during the pre-war times (1990)…
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Living Planet: Connected Planet, Rapid Response Assessment
Through the air, over land and in water, over ten thousand species numbering millions of animals travel around the world in a network of…
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Polar Bears in Svalbard and Melting Sea Ice
The Polar Bear or Ursus maritimus is facing a range of challenges as air temperatures in the Arctic Region are rising 2 – 2.5…
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Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus), Svalbard
In May 2008 the Polar Bear was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in the U.S. The most recognized threat…
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Mother Polar Bear and cub, Svalbard
Polar Bears feed mostly on seals and often follow the retreating ice in summer in order to stay near to the edge of the…
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Polar bears feeding on sea ice, Svalbard
More than any other animal, the polar bear, Ursus maritimus, is recognized as the symbol of the Arctic. With white fur and a sub-skin…