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Item Abuse of Women’s Human Right in Iran: Questioning the Justification of Liberation Narrative in Azar Nafisi’s Memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran(Central Department of English, 2013) Paudel, PrakashIn the aftermath of the 9/11, increased U.S. focus on Iran as a part of the military action dubbed as axis of evil has been justified by some humanitarian acts of defending women’s human rights and liberating them who are living oppressed under Islamic or authoritarian regime. In this context, Nafisi teaches Western literature to let her seven students know about the universality of human rights in general and women’s right in particular. Nafisi’s claim of advocating for women’s right by giving voice to her students is not valid since she has misrepresented them as the most victims in the Islamic regime in Iran who need teaching of Western literature to talk about democracy, freedom and women’s right. So, Nafisi like a typical feminist orientalist that purports to defend freedom, democracy and women’s right but she re-affirms that such values are originated from and accessed through western cultural sources thus is steeped in classic Orientalist stereotypes bolstering the rationale of Western intervention to rescue Muslim women from the repression of Islamic regime.Item Democracy and Good Governance in Nepal(Faculty of Political Science, 2008) Joshi, PrakashNot availableItem Elision of Victimhood: A Critical Study of Human Rights in Forget Kathmandu, Rato Aakash and Palpasa Café(Central Department of English, 2014) Sharma, KamalThe three narratives-Palpasa Café, Forget Kathmandu, and Rato Aakash- expose the issues of human rights violations. These texts make an attempt towards accusing either the Maoist or the State as the violator of human rights. Because the narrators of each text spend much time in collecting the evidences that support their claim, they are less concerned with true victimhood. Thus the victimhood, understood as the situation of speakability of the victim, is his/her very unspeakability, is denied, misrepresented and elided. Ghanashyam Dhakal’s Rato Aakash presents the State security forces as the evil forces, so does Manjushree Thapa’s Forget Kathmandu. On the contrary, Narayan Wagle’s Palpasa Café others the Maoists. The language of otherness has such overtones which bury under their force the sense of victimhood. Elision of victimhood comes to the fore because narrators of three narratives simply visit the war-affected zones. They unfold the stories recollected on the way, tea table, meetings based on mediated, represented truth. The narratives have been the narratives of accusations and demonizations rather than the narratives of victimhood.Item Vital Registration System In Nepal : A Case Study Of Bharatpur Municipality, Chitwan(Department of Population Studies, 2006) Paudel, ParameshwarRecords of vital event registration is one of the important source of population information because it provides data on continuous basis. Keeping this importance in mind, Vital Registration System was introduced in Nepal in 2034 BS but yet the registration status can be said no-existence i.e. it is inferior in both quality and quantity. The main objectives of the study were to analyze the extent of people's knowledge about civil events and actual use of knowledge in registering the events and to understand the main barriers of not registering the events as well as to identify the ways of improving Vital Registration System in Nepal based on this small scale study. A well organized semi-structured questionnaire was used as a main tool to obtain required information in order to fulfill the objectives. The main component of this study comprised an interview of 140 households where at least one vital event was occurred during reference period (i.e. from Chaitra2061 BS to Phalgun 2062 BS). Among the selected households (140), there were 149vital events occurred in which 45 were births, 39 were deaths, 44 were marriages and21 cases were migration. Only 11.5 percent of births, slightly greater than 5 percent of deaths, 20.4 percent of marriages and9.5 percent of migration events were registered timely. In contrast to the registration status, people were found to have sound knowledge about registration of vital events. Radio has dominated in procuring information about civil registration to other medias and sources. Similarly, majority of the respondents (36.8%) were found to have knowledge about accurate duration of time for registration. The main reason for not registering the event is no need of registration certificate but the reason differs to events. Only very few persons registered the events only having knowledge (i.e. by legal compulsion). The main cause of registering a birth is need of birth certificate for enrolling children in school, where proof of actual birth date is required, and getting citizenship certificate. The not-registering this event is no need of birth certificate and not having knowledge. Similarly, the main cause of registering the death is to transfer the assets and pension of dead person. Marriages are registered mainly to prove relationship,only if it is necessary and not registering migration is because of lack of knowledge and no need of migration certificate. Therefore, in order to improve Vital Registration System, sufficient information about registration of all vital events should be provided, legal enforcement should be made strong, staffs who are engage is registering these events should be trained, integration and support from other related agencies is required,huge area for need of registration certificates should be created.