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fair begins</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">KATHMANDU, March 8 -</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">With a view to developing a new partnership
among South Asian women entrepreneurs, a three-day mega event 'Solidarity of
South Asian Women’ kicked off in the capital on Saturday on the eve of 99th
International Working Women’s Day.</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; ">As a part of the mega event,
an intra-regional trade fair also began from Saturday. It displays
various goods and products produced and marketed by women entrepreneurs. The
displays are related to tourism, agriculture, handicrafts, interior design, and
medicine from accross the South Asian region. As many as 61 stalls have
been put up in the fair.</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; ">There are some 21
women's organsations participating in the fair. Out of this, 15 are from Nepal.</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">President Dr. Ram Baran
Yadav inaugurated the event amid a function.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; ">The event is being
organized with the theme ‘Solidarity for Peace, Prosperity and a Progressive
Society’.</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Minister for Industry
Asta Laxmi Shakya and several other prominent women from Nepal as well as other
South Asian countries also spoke on the occasion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; ">Women gathering</span><br></p>
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justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">KATHMANDU: The first
National Women’s Social Forum (NWSF) kicked off in the capital on Saturday with
the aim of giving voice to the voiceless women from backward and marginalised
communities. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The forum is being
organized on the occasion of 99th International Working Women’s Day which falls
on March 8. It will continue for the next three days accompanied by various
programmes .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; ">Talking to the Post,
Advocacy Officer and member of coordinating committee, Roni Pradhan said that
the main objective of the forum is to discuss collectively on multiple issues
concerning women and their rights. The forum will also hold discussions on
government policies that excluded women from decision making levels and seek to
find sustainable solutions to it all, according to her.</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;line-height:16.75pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; ">“We all have worked
separately on various issues concerning women for a long time. We never sat
together and discussed over these multiple issues seriously and the result is
that we have been unable to find proper solutions to the problems. This forum will
help us to redress all that,” she said.</span><br></p>
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