Shiwani Neupane

Shiwani Neupane is a journalist and novelist from Nepal who works at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and is a co-founder of Story South Asia, a website dedicated to South Asian affairs. She has a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and bachelor's degree in English and political science from Ithaca College.

The Lure of Violent Extremism for Women: A Terrorism Specialist Explains

Shiwani Neupane

• November 9, 2014

Liat Shetret is the director of the New York office for the Global Center on Cooperative Security, a nonprofit group that helps governments and other organizations develop responses to international security issues. Shetret’s work — currently in Africa — focuses on community engagement in terrorism prevention, countering violent extremism, the use of Internet for …

Middle East, Peace and Security, Women

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Women’s Feature Service: Mapping the Struggles of Feminism in India

Shiwani Neupane

• September 1, 2014

Pamela Philipose was editor of the Women’s Feature Service, the only syndicated news service in India with a gender perspective, for nearly six years, until she stepped down this year as editor in chief and director. She wore other hats for the publication as well, writing and photographing. The service began operating in India …

Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women

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Meet Sapana Malla, a Diligent Pioneer of Women’s Rights in Nepal

Shiwani Neupane

• May 8, 2014

As a lawyer, Sapana Pradhan Malla has pioneered women’s rights in Nepal, consistently advocating for equal inheritance, reproductive rights and women’s participation in politics. She has also been a politician herself, as a member Nepal’s Constituent Assembly, or parliament, from the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist Party, where she fought not only for equal rights …

Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women

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A Nepali Gay Rights Activist Achieves the Impossible

Shiwani Neupane

• April 10, 2014

The name Sunil Babu Pant is synonymous with gay rights in Nepal. Over the last two decades, Pant has been seen rallying on the streets of Kathmandu, the capital, distributing condoms to people in the gay community and recently making laws as a parliamentarian in Nepal’s Constituent Assembly. Under his watch, homosexuality was legalized …

Asia, Human Rights

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UN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 2014

Girls’ Education Progresses in Afghanistan, but Will It Last?

Shiwani Neupane

• March 30, 2014

Since the United States-led coalition toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, education for girls has become more accessible in some parts of the country, but many factors continue to stymie its progress. Panelists discussed girls’ education in Afghanistan during a recent event held for the Commission on the Status of Women’s 2014 session …

Education, Women

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UN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 2014

Solving Bangladesh’s ‘Living Wages’ Problem Demands Global Support

Shiwani Neupane

• March 18, 2014

The dialogue on living wages has come a long way since the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,000 people in 2013, but there will be no solution to the living wage problem until all parties involved work together, a diverse group of panelists agreed at a panel on the topic, …