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Related web sites:

Sherwa mi, web site on the Sherpas of Nepal
[Attention: This site has moved!]

Website on Nepal's constitution as part of the ICL project of the University of Bern, Switzerland

Website of the German-Nepal Friendship Association


Nouveauté:

Sherpa-French dictionary

Sherpa conversation
&
vocabulaire de base


par
Lhakpa Doma Sherpa
Chhiri Tendi Sherpa (Salaka)
Karl-Heinz Krämer (Tsak)

en collaboration avec
Célestin Ouedraogo

Kathmandu 2009


Neuerscheinung:

Sherpa-Sprachbuch

Sherpa-Sprache: Konversation und Grundwortschatz

von Lhakpa Doma Sherpa, Chhiri Tendi Sherpa and Karl-Heinz Krämer

Köln: Deutsch-Nepalische Gesellschaft e.V. 2007
info@deutsch-nepal.de


New publication:

Sherpa language book

by
Lhakpa Doma Sherpa
Chhiri Tendi Sherpa (Salaka)
Karl-Heinz Krämer (Tsak)

in collaboration with Pasang Sherpa (Salaka),
Kancha Nurbu Sherpa (Salaka), Phuri Sherpa (Pinasa) and Lhamu Sherpa (Salaka)

Ratna Books, Kathmandu, Nepal
First edition, 2006
ISBN: 99933-58-02-9



Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics (HPSACP)


Neuerscheinung:
Sebastian Buciak u. Rüdiger von Dehn (Hg.),
Indien und Pakistan - Atommächte im Spannungsfeld regionaler und globaler Veränderungen. Außen- und Sicherheitspolitische Studienkreise e.V. 2010
(siehe weitere Infos)

Vajrayana Thangka Art Center:
The art centre was registered under the law of Nepal in the birth place of Buddha, country of the Mt Everest with the aim of produce and export high qualities thangkas by well experienced artist of thangka.


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Lorraine - Népal

Himalayan Conservation Foundation

Informationen in deutscher Sprache zur Organisation und zu den Schulpatenschaften


Verantwortung übernehmen:
Das Nepalprojekt der Helene-Lange-Schule, Wiesbaden


 

New: Nepal Research has started an internet journal entitled Nepal Observer that is going to be published on an irregular basis. The articles can be downloaded from this site. The republication in Nepali newspapers or journals is strongly supported. We only ask for a short note to pasang5 at nepalresearch.org (if possible with link).

Crisis solution in Nepal (updated 03/09/2010), see also additional papers
After the conclusion of the peace treaty on November 21, 2006, our special section on the crisis in Nepal that has been started with the finalization of the royal coup of February 1, 2005, has been closed at the end of November 2006. Beginning with December 1, 2006, it is replaced by a new section that has to deal with the hard task of building up a new and inclusive Nepal.
The prior collections are still accessible through the following links:

Links to selected press articles on the crisis in Nepal
(updated 30/11/2006)
List of submitted papers and documents
(updated 27/11/2006)
Quick access to important crisis links and documents
(updated 26/05/2006)

The following statute calendar was decided on 16 November 2008:

result status


result status

The official results can be found on the Election Commission website. See also winning FPTP candidates, persons elected through PR system (in Nepali) as well as overview over total results (PR and FPTP with comparison to 1999).

See new council of ministers of 31 August 2008 as amended on 25 March 2009

By-elections, 10 April 2009: The by-elections in 6 constituencies have further confirmed the results of the CA elections that took place exactly one year before. The Unified CPN (Maoist) has won 3 seats. This is one seat more than the party had won in these constituencies in April 2008. The NC has won one seat by another member of the extended Koirala family. This seat had been won by the MPRF in 2008, but the party lost one seat each to the Unified CPN (Maoist) and the CPN (UML). Remarcably, the NC lost the seat in Kanchanpur to the Maoists that had been won by Sher Bahadur Deuba in 2008. In Dhanusha, the son of President Ram Baran Yadav lost against the CPN (UML) candidate. This confirms that the NC is further loosing people's trust with its continued non-inclusive politics of boycotting the reconstruction process and the necessary army integration and because it is still following a politics of nepotism. The CPN (UML) may have won the seat that had been won by President Yadav in 2008 but this does not cope with the party's claim to lead a government without Maoist participation. The MPRF has lost one seat compared to 2008. This may hint at deteriorating support for this Tarai party but it's too early to confirm this as a trend.

The poor participation in the elections must be seen as a hint that the people are fed up with the endless power games of the parties and their leading politicians. With the exception of Dhanusha (about 60%), the participation was 10-20% less than one year ago.


Information on the CA elections of April 10, 2008

Election Commission

See also special election website of eKantipur

See data of former parliamentary elections

DEAN (Democracy and Election Alliance Nepal)

Nepal Election Portal

National Election Observation Committee (NEOC)

National Election Monitoring Alliance (NEMA)

UNDP: Support to Constitution Building

UNMIN

Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL)

See opinon poll reports by Sudhindra Sharma and Pawan Kumar Sen

See new national anthem

Solidarity with the Tibetan people:

The Nepali people must not forget that the world stood behind them in their fight against the totalitarian royal regime in 2005/6. The authoritarian Chinese occupators of Tibet should not be supported in their suppression of the freedom rights of the Tibetans. Nepali authorities: Stop the attrocities against peaceful Tibetan demontrators immediately! Nepali party politicians: Your are back in power because the people fought against Gyanendra's authoritarian rule. It was the Chinese government that stood behind Gyanendra. Do never forget this! Good neighbourly relations are not reflected by the support of authoritarian rights violations!!
The pictures and videos of Nepali police beating up and violating peaceful Tibetan demonstrators in Kathmandu are another shame for Nepal! Respect fundamental democratic and human rights!
[see collection of links on the Tibetan uprising]



The following chart shows the miserable state of inclusion within the major parties. Especially Nepali Congress and CPN (UML) fundamentally offend against interim constitution and laws (see corresponding constitutional and legal rules):

inclusion

inclusion_age

non-inclusiveness of Tarai parties


(A new comment on the situation after the elections and the abolition of monarchy is under preparation)

Nepal nach den Wahlen zu einer verfassunggebenden Versammlung: Probleme beim Neubeginn. FES, 15 November 2008

See former comments

An open letter to prime Minister Prachanda from a victim of People’s War, by Prabin K. Prajapati, Lund University, Sweden, 9 September 2008


Opinion poll reports, published by Interdisciplinary Analysts (IDA) with financial support from The Asia Foundation:
Nepal: Contemporary Political Situation. Opinion Poll Report. By Sudhindra Sharma and Pawan Kumar Sen. January 2005.
Nepal: Contemporary Political Situation – II. Opinion Poll Report. By Sudhindra Sharma and Pawan Kumar Sen. April 2006.
Nepal: Contemporary Political Situation – III. Opinion Poll Report. By Sudhindra Sharma and Pawan Kumar Sen. December 2006.
Nepal: Contemporary Political Situation – IV. Opinion Poll Report. Top-Line Findings. By Interdisciplinary Analysts, 5 February 2007 [presentation].
Nepal Contemporary Political Situation V. Nationwide Opinion Survey. By Sudhindra Sharma and Pawan Kumar Sen. Fieldwork: January 2008 [presentation as pdf file]

Links to photo collections on the April 2006 People's Movement

Name list of 202 Jana Andolan-II suppressors (Kantipur Online 23/11/2006)

More than 800 still missing in Nepal: ICRC (kp) [See list of missing people]


 

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