{"id":19026,"date":"2025-03-08T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=19026"},"modified":"2025-03-08T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T06:40:05","slug":"urgency-to-remove-obstacles-end-violence-against-women-foreign-minister-deuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/urgency-to-remove-obstacles-end-violence-against-women-foreign-minister-deuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgency to remove obstacles, end violence against women: Foreign Minister Deuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, March 8: Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Arzu Rana Deuba called for collective efforts to end violence against women (VAW) and all other obstacles on women empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>In a congratulatory message on the occasion of the International Women&#8217;s Day-2025 today, Minister Rana bemoaned,&#8221; Even at present, women continue to face various sorts of discrimination and violence. We need concerted efforts to do away with these obstacles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging the progresses achieved in country&#8217;s women movements, the Minister lamented that the basic needs of Nepali citizens were still unaddressed compared to the developed nations.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Rana reflected her longstanding advocacy on advancing gender cause, and reaffirmed her commitment towards women empowerment and gender equality. &#8220;I would like to reaffirm my commitment on this day to drive policy reform that ensures that the voices of women are heard,&#8221; she vowed.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister called on everyone to enhance capacity of women, especially those from rural areas and marginalized communities, thereby increasing their access to the governance.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, the Minister also urged everyone to work in unison to ensure a bright future for the adolescent girls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 8: Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Arzu Rana Deuba called for collective efforts to end violence against women (VAW) and all other obstacles on women empowerment. In a congratulatory message on the occasion of the International Women&#8217;s Day-2025 today, Minister Rana bemoaned,&#8221; Even at present, women continue to face various sorts of discrimination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19028,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions\/19028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}