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.
- Shiwani Neupane
- • November 9, 2014
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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 —…
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Women
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- Shiwani Neupane
- • September 1, 2014
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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…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women
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- Shiwani Neupane
- • May 8, 2014
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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…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Shiwani Neupane
- • April 10, 2014
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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…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights
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- Shiwani Neupane
- • March 30, 2014
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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…
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- Shiwani Neupane
- • March 18, 2014
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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…
- Categories: Development, Women
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