Nepali radio programme builds peace

Lena Sundh, representative UNHC HR--OHCHR Nepal, being interviewed for the radio program Naya Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal - For the past year Subaltern Forum, an organization of journalists based in Kathmandu, Nepal, has been producing and broadcasting fortnightly radio programmes on non-violent conflict resolution. Originally planned by the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), Subaltern took over when political difficulties intervened. WACC supported the initiative under its small projects programme.

Naya Nepal (meaning ‘New Nepal’) offered an exciting mix of news items, commentary and popular music aimed at informing people about political and social ferment in the country. Leading political figures Ram Chandra Pudel (Minister of Peace and Reconstruction), Krishna Pahadi (a human rights activist and leader of a citizens’ movement for democracy and peace), and Bishnu Neupane (leader of a movement for proportionate representation of women in the ‘new’ Nepal) all came to the studio to be interviewed.

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