National Women Rights Day is being celebrated today

May 30, Kathmandu: National Women Rights Day is being celebrated with the slogan of, end of gender-based discrimination: Destination of prosperous Nepal, all across the country, today.

While addressing the program Organized by the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen, Minister Thama Maya Thapa has informed that the government has decided to observe Jestha 16 as the National Women Rights Day from this year.

Minister Thapa has expressed the view that the campaign against gender-based violence would help to reduce incidents of domestic violence, rape and thrashing people on the charge of witchcraft.